Therefore he could with satisfaction have killed me.
But because my death might cause you pain, because your happiness was the thing that above all things he desired, he surrendered that part of his guarantee of safety which my person afforded him.

If his departure should be hindered, and I should lose my life in what might follow, there was the risk that...

that you might mourn me.

That risk he would not take.

Him you deemed a thief and a pirate, he said, and added that--I am giving you his own words always--if in choosing between us two, your choice, as he believed, would fall on me, then were you in his opinion choosing wisely.