I won't have no hand in it, beyond seeing fair play.

Madam Esmond has helped me many a time, tended my poor wife in her lying-in, and doctored our Betty in the fever.

You ain't a-going to be very hard with them poor boys?
Though I seen 'em both shoot: the fair one hunts well, as you know, but the old one's a wonder at an ace of spades." "Will you be pleased to send my man with my valise, Captain, into any private room which you can spare me?
I must write a few letters before this business comes on.

God grant it were well over!" And the Captain led the Colonel into almost the only other room of his house, calling, with many oaths, to a pack of negro servants, to disperse thence, who were chattering loudly among one another, and no doubt discussing the quarrel which had just taken place.

Edwin, the Colonel's man, returned with his master's portmanteau, and as he looked from the window, he saw Sady, George Warrington's negro, galloping away upon his errand, doubtless, and in the direction of Castlewood.