“By what right?”
“By that of the strongest.”
“But my intention is to pay you for it.”
“That is very generous of you, my lord.”
“And the worth of it——”
“My lord, I fix no price.”
“What do you ask, then?”
“I only ask to be permitted to go away.”
“Where?—to General Lambert’s camp?”
“I!” cried the fisherman; “what should I go to Newcastle for, now I have no longer any fish?”