I could not help laughing at Alden--the idea of calling him a witch.

Alden is a religious man, you know!" "But it may cost him his life!" "That is what I went to see him about.

I offered to come up with a party some night, break open the jail, and carry him off to New York in the Storm King." "Well ?" "Oh, you know the better people are not in the jail, but in the jailer's house--having given their promise to Keeper Arnold that they will not try to escape, if thus kindly treated.

And besides, if he runs off, they will confiscate his property; of which Alden foolishly has a good deal in houses and lands.

So he thinks it the best policy to hold on to his anchor, and see if the storm will not blow itself out." "And so you have no conscientious scruples against breaking the law, by carrying off any of these imprisoned persons ?" "Conscientious scruples and the Puritan laws be d----!" exclaimed the Captain; thinking perhaps that this was an occasion when he might with propriety break his rule as to swearing while in port.
"Your language expresses my sentiments exactly!" responded the young Englishman, who had never uttered an oath in his life.