"IT IS A QUEER TRADE, MONSIEUR, THIS OF A PIRATE," HE SAID.
"Then why do you follow it?" asked Marbury, handing over the gold, and motioning for the slave to put down the silver.
"Force of circumstances, drove me to it," counting the sovereigns.
"Which is the same thing as natural inclination," Marbury replied.
"You mean, that circumstances force one only where one wants to go?"
"Exactly!"
"And therefore that I am a pirate from choice?"
"Certainly!"
"Are you paying me this gold from choice, or from force of circumstances?"