I had half a mind to change my plan and destroy their boats, but I feared that Silver and the others might be close at hand, and all might very well be lost by trying for too much.
我一度想改变计划,毁掉他们的小艇;但我担心西尔弗等人就在附近,贪求太多,很可能反而满盘皆输。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Treasure Island · XVI · Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned —