"If half as I heard about you is true, you'll want all your sharpness for yourself, Miss Remy.

And the Britishers are worse than we be." "Well, Martin, I am sure you would help me," I said, "if you saw any person injuring me.

But what is it I am not to tell your master ?" "My master, indeed! Well, you need not tell old Gundry any thing about what you have seen.

It might lead to hard words; and hard words are not the style of thing I put up with.

If any man tries hard words with me, I knocks him down, up sticks, and makes tracks." I could not help smiling at the poor man's talk.