“I hoped that you, or one of the younger men, might show some valor, and become a Janissary, and one day make his way back to Christendom, and tell the tale of my deeds ’gainst the Barbary Corsairs. So that all would know how my story came out, and that it came out well. That’s all.” “Well, next time enunciate,” Mr. Foot said, “because we literally could not make out a word you were saying.”
