"Then you propose to me to carry her off?"
"That's the very thing."
"How much do you want for that?"
"Nothing," the Pirate answered with a magnificent gesture of disinterestedness.
"How, nothing?"
"Dear me, no."
"That is impossible."
"It is so, however, though I will propose two conditions."
"Ah! Ah! There we have it."
The pirate smiled in reply.