And I will pay you a half crown for the loan." "If I was to leave they letters in your hand, I could never hold head up in Burlington no more." "That is no concern of mine.

Your duty is to hold up your head with me, and those who find you in bread and butter." "Precious little butter I ever gets, and very little bread to speak of.
The folk that does the work gets nothing.

Them that does nothing gets the name and game." "Fellow, no reasoning, but obey me!" Carroway shouted, with his temper rising.

"Hand over those letters, or you leave the service." "How can I give away another man's property ?" As he said these words, the man folded his arms, as who should say, "That is all you get out of me." "Is that the way you speak to your commanding officer?
Who owns those letters, then, according to your ideas ?" "Butcher Hewson; and he says that you shall have them as soon as he sees the money for his little bill." This was a trifle too much for Carroway.

Up he jumped with surprising speed, took one stride through the station door, and seizing Cadman by the collar, shook him, wrung his ear with the left hand, which was like a pair of pincers, and then with the other flung him backward as if he were an empty bag.