It's highway robbery, but I might have expected to be robbed.

I'll give you six hundred for that land." I did not answer.

I was holding my temper by main strength and I could not trust myself to speak.
"Well ?" he sneered.

"That shakes your public spirit some, hey?
What do you say ?" "No," I answered, and started for the door.
"What!" he could hardly believe his ears.

"By the Lord Harry! the fellow is crazy.