Only a bit of cross-fighting, and we shall be in the crowd going the other way.

Did you do physics at school?
Remember about the resultant of forces?
Now _we_'re a force tending to the right, and the crowd is a force making for straight on; to find the--' His hat was knocked over his eyes, and the statement of the problem ended in laughter.
With a good deal of difficulty they reached one of the southward byways; and thenceforth walking was unimpeded.
'You know that I call myself Luckworth Crewe,' resumed Nancy's companion after a short silence.
'Of course I do.' 'Well, the fact is, I've no right to either of the names.

I thought I'd just tell you, for the fun of the thing; I shouldn't talk about it to any one else that I know.

They tell me I was picked up on a doorstep in Leeds, and the wife of a mill-hand adopted me.

Their name was Crewe.
They called me Tom, but somehow it isn't a name I care for, and when I was grown up I met a man called Luckworth, who was as kind as a father to me, and so I took his name in place of Tom.