Not only for this, but for--all the rest.

For your help the other night especially; I want to thank you for that." "It was nothing," I answered, awkwardly.
"Nothing! You are not very complimentary, Mr.Paine." "I mean--that is, I--" "You may consider rescuing shipwrecked young ladies, afloat and ashore, nothing--perhaps you do it so often that it is of little consequence to you; but I am not so modest.

I estimate my safety as worth something, even if you do not." "I did not mean that, of course, Miss Colton.

You know I did not.

I meant that--that what I did was no more than any one else would have done under the same circumstances.