The only risk I ran was knocking your head off with my heavy boots.

But if you hadn't begun the folly, I wouldn't have jumped, if the river had been full of the company's skips." Then the door opened and the head contractor's engineer came in.
"You did a plucky thing to-day, Festing," he began; but Charnock interrupted.
"Don't spoil my argument, Mr.Norton.

I've been proving he made a fool of himself." "Then there were two of you," Norton rejoined.

"The trolley was running fast, and if you had dropped a few yards farther out, you wouldn't have got back." He turned to Festing.

"I was rather mad about it when you broke the wire, and of course wanted the skip.