D'Artagnan, the King Maker — page 38: what you’re looking at

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The Petrel Changes Hands. 29 outer covering, the disclosed a broad belt of sharkskin, enriched barbarically with beaten silver, in which he thrust the breadknife, and into a pouch appended he put the gold pieces. Thus accoutered, he strode to the doorway and looked out on the village and the sea, like a mariner who took no course without being sure of the weather. While gazing, he hummed a ballad which would have accorded with the buccaneers from whom the Brothers of the Coast derived their financial policy: “He that can kill a man, Murder and plunder precisely, It’s he is the man that does wisely! And may climb to a chair of the State!” “Some,” said the novice at the helm of the Petrel, “would not prefer a host singing such sentiments! Yet I doubt not, he is a good fellow! Perhaps, by the tail of his canticle, he is ambitious! Well, he may serve!” COnmcebooks.c