Loudon, if there should be any unpleasantness, you can trust me to do the right thing and keep you clear.

I've been telling them already, how you had no business grip and never saw the books.

O, I trust I have done right in this! I knew it was a liberty; I know you may justly complain; but it was some things that were said.

And mind you, all legitimate business! Not even your shrinking sensitiveness could find fault with the first look of one of them, if they had panned out right.

And you know, the Flying Scud was the biggest gamble of the crowd, and that was your own idea.