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"Proceed then without further delay, or I may repent, and order you to
be deprived of all your gains; the silver as well as the notes."
"Honour, if you die for it!" returned the miscreant, holding up a hand
in affected horror at so treacherous a threat. "Well, captain, you
must know that gentlemen don't all live by the same calling; some keep
what they've got, and some get what they can."
"You have been a thief."
"I scorn the word. I have been a humanity hunter. Do you know what
that means? Ay, it has many interpretations. Some people think the
woolly-heads are miserable, working on hot plantations under a
broiling sun--and all such sorts of inconveniences. Well, captain, I
have been, in my time, a man who has been willing to give them the
pleasures of variety, at least, by changing the scene for them. You
understand me?"
"You are, in plain language, a kidnapper."
"Have been, my worthy captain--have been; but just now a little
reduced, like a merchant who leaves off selling tobacco by the
hogshead, to deal in it by the yard.


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