"Do you not see?"
"What do you see, let me ask in return?"
"Hang it! I see the Libertad corvette, which has first anchored under the guns of the Point Fort, bringing with her a privateer brig, which she has, in all probability, captured off the coast."
"Do you think so?" the Jaguar asked, sarcastically.
"Look for yourself!"
"My friend, I am rather like St. Thomas."
"What do you mean?"
"That as long as I am not completely convinced, I shall attach but very slight faith to the testimony of my eyesight."
These words were uttered with such a singular intonation, that, in spite of himself, the Colonel felt ashamed. "What can you mean?" he asked.
"Nothing but what I say," the Jaguar answered.