Captain Blood

pretty brown slut

“Quo, quo, scelesti, ruitis?”

earlier in the afternoon Ferguson, the Duke’s chaplain, had preached a sermon that contained more treason than divinity.
These straggling, excited groups were mainly composed of men with green boughs in their hats and the most ludicrous of weapons in their hands. Some, it is true, shouldered fowling pieces, and here and there a sword was brandished; but more of them were armed with clubs, and most of them trailed the mammoth pikes fashioned out of scythes, as formidable to the eye as they were clumsy to the hand.

I'll take any risk that I must, I'll take none that I needn't

Each of us carries in himself a standard by which to measure his neighbour.

purple darkness of the tropical night.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal

ce:
"Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage

She used with all men a sisterly frankness which in itself contains a quality of aloofness, rendering it difficult for any man to become her lover

in announcing that he preferred it to England, he had indulged that almost laudable form of boasting which lies in belittling our misadventures.