Blithely he accepted accept five hundred thousand dollars and gave in return -- a promise promise .

When I left leave Mr. Bates , I went go down to my father : where , by the assistance of him and my uncle John , and some other relations , I got get forty pounds , and a promise promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden : there I studied physic two years and seven months , knowing it would be useful in long voyages .

But the remembrance remembrance of what I had felt feel , which probably might not be the worst they could do , and the promise promise of honour I made them — for so I interpreted interpret my submissive behaviour — soon drove drive out these imaginations imagination .

My promise promise , then , was given ; but six months are six months , and seem an eternity , and , inasmuch as they stretched between me and my prospective industry ( I suppose attaches are industrious ; but I know not , for I never became attache to Sir Jacob or anybody else ) , I cast cast about for some desirable mode of spending them .

True to his promise promise , he was there with a blank bank-check in his pocket , awaiting await with impatience to enter the list as a bidder for the beautiful slave .