The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling, and become at once, if he chose, a man of probity and piety on land; nor, even in the full career of his reckless life, was he regarded as a personage with whom it was disreputable to traffic, or casually associate. 去书内

  • 孙毓晗 孙毓晗

    It means that a pirate at sea could stop being a pirate and become a honest and religious man on land if he wanted, and even when he was a pirate, people didn't think it was shameful to deal with or associate with him.

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