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| And so, considering the adventurous spirit that once already had sent him a-roving for the sheer love of it, considering that this spirit was heightened now by a recklessness begotten of his outlawry, that his training and skill in militant seamanship clamorously supported the temptations that were put before him, can you wonder, or dare you blame him, that in the end he succumbed? | Все, кто спасся с Питером Бладом с плантаций Барбадоса, и в числе их сам Джереми Питт, в ушах которого постоянно шумел настойчивый зов моря, почувствовав себя вечными изгнанниками, также хотели присоединиться к великому "береговому братству", как называли себя пираты. |
| And remember that these temptations proceeded not only from adventurous buccaneering acquaintances in the taverns of that evil haven of Tortuga, but even from M. d'Ogeron, the governor of the island, who levied as his harbour dues a percentage of one tenth of all spoils brought into the bay, and who profited further by commissions upon money which he was desired to convert into bills of exchange upon France. | Они настоятельно требовали от Блада согласия быть их, вожаком и клялись следовать за ним повсюду. |
| A trade that might have worn a repellent aspect when urged by greasy, half-drunken adventurers, boucan-hunters, lumbermen, beach-combers, English, French, and Dutch, became a dignified, almost official form of privateering when advocated by the courtly, middle-aged gentleman who in representing the French West India Company seemed to represent France herself. | Если подвести итог под записями Джереми, посвященными этому вопросу, то выйдет так, что Блад подчинился своим настроениям и настояниям друзей и отдался течению судьбы, заявив, что от нее все равно никуда не уйдешь. |
| Moreover, to a man - not excluding Jeremy Pitt himself, in whose blood the call of the sea was insistent and imperative - those who had escaped with Peter Blood from the Barbados plantations, and who, consequently, like himself, knew not whither to turn, were all resolved upon joining the great Brotherhood of the Coast, as those rovers called themselves. | Я думаю, что основной причиной его колебаний и столь длительного сопротивления была мысль об Арабелле Бишоп. |
| And they united theirs to the other voices that were persuading Blood, demanding that he should continue now in the leadership which he had enjoyed since they had left Barbados, and swearing to follow him loyally whithersoever he should lead them. | Ни тогда, ни позже он не задумывался о том, что им, может быть, не суждено больше встретиться. |