"Methinks I have met others of this kind before," remarked the elder officer.  "A Dorset man, I’ll wager, and, that being so, he’s either smuggler or pirate.  Whether he be of Poole or Weymouth ’tis all the same.  Far rather would I meet Dutchman or Frenchman in fair fight than be cast ashore on the devil-haunted coast of Purbeck.  Now, Sedgewyke, I pray you dispatch that horse and let us hasten on, unless we wish to be benighted on the highway."