You ain't missing out on much, love. Fat lot of tyrants they were, no one worth bending your knee to.

[It's a casual, flippant statement. Piracy would never have taken the hold it did if the monarchs gave a tinker's damn about the smallfolk they called countrymen, anyway. Sure, the issue's more complicated than that, but the truth is, desperate men do desperate things in any age.]

There's no need to apologize for an incomplete education. I'm surprised you had schooling at all.

[Most women kind of didn't, and Ellie isn't striking Kidd as being a lady proper.]