human
You expect this time to gain your liberty, my friend? I said to La Touche.
gpt
Don't be too sure that your countrymen will come up with us, or if they do, that they will make the _Liffy_ strike her flag.
human
I would rather be set at liberty in any other way, he answered, in his usual cordial tone;
gpt
Perhaps they are, and if so we must fight them, and drive them off,
human
It would be madness to do that, he remarked.
gpt
You cannot cope with a line-of-battle ship alone, independent of two frigates, each of which is a match for the _Liffy_.