“Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?”

“They are ours,” he said, “although not properly the sailors: they are only along because we would not leave them to drown, and ought to be more grateful for it than they are. Laurence,” he said, turning, “this is Palta, and that man is called Taruca: Iskierka snatched him, and I cannot find she asked him in the least.”

“Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.”

“Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate?”

“I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.”

“Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.”

“And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.”