When he realizes that she is not going back to England with this man, it dawns on him that he has hope. I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Blood believes Arabella to be in love with another man and is willing to let her go.Historical Villain Upgrade: King James II.Guile Hero: Captain Blood, though very efficient in swordfighting, pulls his legendary feats by ruses, disguises and Batman gambits.Funetik Aksent: Most of the Spaniards speak this way, as do Cahusac and Levasseur.Duel to the Death: Between Peter and Levasseur.Dirty Coward: Cahusac, who flees the affair at Maracaybo.Deadpan Snarker: Blood himself, like many Sabatini protagonists.In addition to establishing the height of Blood's legacy, it directly brings the focus of the novel to Blood's last shift in goals and his conflict with his first and most personal foe, Col. Climax Boss: The death of Don Miguel de Espinosa brings an end to the middle third of the odyssey.d'Ogeron being daughter of the the Governor of Tortuga, and he must guile and duel is way into saving Mlle. When this puts Blood's safety in his safe harbor of Tortuga in jeopardy due to Mlle. Damsel in Distress: Blood's first partner in piracy, Levasseur, kidnaps his beloved Mlle.Like Blood's fictional chronicler Pitt, Esquemeling was a companion of Morgan. He received damages, and the controversial portions were omitted. note Morgan himself took issue with several aspects of said biography, and successfully sued. The writer implies that the in-universe biography of Blood which he used to write the book was partially plagiarized for a Esquemeling's famous Morgan biography, so Morgan got credit for certain exploits that are 'rightfully' Blood's. Celebrity Paradox: The story is heavily based on the life of Henry Morgan.The Big Guy: Wolverstone fills this role.

Badass Bookworm: Peter was a soldier before he was a peaceful doctor, and when circumstances force him to take up arms again, he kills his enemies with surgical precision.

He allowed a black beard to grow on cheeks that had ever been so carefully shaven and the long, thick black hair, once so sedulously curled, hung now in a lank, untidy mane about a face that was changing from its vigorous swarthiness to an unhealthy sallow, whilst the blue eyes, that had been so vivid and compelling, were now dull and lackluster. He had entirely lost the almost foppish concern for his appearance, and was grown careless and slovenly in his dress.

He was degenerating visibly, under the eyes of all.

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