He's turned his back upon one who is his best friend; and is playing the game of others, who care nothing for him, whether he be poor or rich, well or ill, alive or dead.

A hundred a year?
Are the lot of you soft enough to think that if a hundred a year be to be given, it's the likes of you that will get it ?"--and he pointed to Billy Gazy, Spriggs, and Crumple.

"Did any of us ever do anything worth half the money?
Was it to make gentlemen of us we were brought in here, when all the world turned against us, and we couldn't longer earn our daily bread?
A'n't you all as rich in your ways as he in his ?"--and the orator pointed to the side on which the warden lived.

"A'n't you getting all you hoped for, ay, and more than you hoped for?
Wouldn't each of you have given the dearest limb of his body to secure that which now makes you so unthankful ?" "We wants what John Hiram left us," said Handy.

"We wants what's ourn by law; it don't matter what we expected.