'Ay, carry him to Flushing,' said the Captain, 'or--to America?'

'Ay, ay, my friend.'

'Or--to Jericho?'

'Psha! Wherever you have a mind.'

'Ay, or--pitch him overboard?'

'Nay, I advise no violence.'

'Nein, nein; you leave that to me. Sturmwetter! I know you of old.
But, hark ye, what am I, Dirk Hatteraick, to be the better of
this?'

'Why, is it not your interest as well as mine?' said Glossin;
'besides, I set you free this morning.'

'YOU set me free! Donner and deyvil! I set myself free. Besides,
it was all in the way of your profession, and happened a long time
ago, ha, ha, ha!'

'Pshaw! pshaw! don't let us jest; I am not against making a
handsome compliment; but it's your affair as well as mine.'

'What do you talk of my affair? is it not you that keep the
younker's whole estate from him? Dirk Hatteraick never touched a
stiver of his rents.'