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ROBERT
They have the two ships lashed together, and they're on ours, taking store of the plunder.
LYDIA
ROBERT
We are in the hands of Providence, Lydia.
LYDIA
Ah, no! In the hands of horrid pirates! How sudden it came upon us, Robert!
ROBERT
Sudden? Aye, sudden as a tide wave in the Indy oceans; it'll come out of a level sea and carry away half your ship while you're taking a puff o' your pipe! Sudden's the way of the sea, Lydia.
LYDIA
Oh, I believe it! Was it only a little while ago you and I stood and watched the moon lift itself out of the water so quietly?
ROBERT
Yes, at nightfall.
LYDIA
And we were happy--and didn't know it! We thought we had trouble! We were afraid to tell my father that you and I had found love together; we were afraid of what he would say. How strange it seems now; we thought that was trouble!
ROBERT
Aye, sweetheart; it's strange.
LYDIA
When they come to us how will they murder us, Robert?
ROBERT
I don't know!
LYDIA
Will they throw us into the sea, tied as we are?
ROBERT
I can't tell!
LYDIA
Do you think they would be kind enough to murder us together--if I asked them? If I begged them, don't you think they might, Robert?
ROBERT
I--I hope so.
LYDIA
Hark!
ROBERT
What do you hear?
LYDIA
I think they are coming now. Hark!
THE GUNNER
We'll just have a better look at ye! We think belike you're worth lookin' at too!
LYDIA
No! You shall not look at me!
THE GUNNER
Eh? I didn't mean you, missus. I mean this fine lad on his back here. Aye! A fine, lusty young man! I thought so. You give me a bit of a tousle, lad. It was you put this cut over my eye.
ROBERT
THE GUNNER
Aye; I'd trust ye for that. I did a little to your own head. I give ye a knob there to handle ye by.
ROBERT
Don't!
THE GUNNER
I put a fine knob on ye.
ROBERT
Cut my throat and be done with it if that's what you came for.
THE GUNNER
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