This affair may do him good, and save his neck from a noose.

A few years at the hulks or a passage to Botany Bay will do him no harm; and, at any rate, his father will have rest and peace, which he never would have if he remained here." A somewhat similar conversation took place at each house.

John Thorndyke breakfasted at Sir Charles Harris', the last of the three upon whom he called, and then mounting rode back to Reigate.
"We have found the plunder on them," the head constable said, coming out of the lockup as he drew rein before it, "and, fortunately for young Bastow, nothing was found upon him." "How are the two men ?" "The fellow you hit first is conscious now, sir, but very weak.

The doctor says that if he hadn't had a thick hat on, your blow would have killed him to a certainty.

The other man's arm is set and bandaged, and he is all right otherwise.