There's nothing in life for such as he.
Not a dog's chance.

But I couldn't let him go, Davy! I couldn't.' "Davidson felt a profound pity for the child.

She laid her hand on his knee and whispered an earnest warning against the Frenchman.

Davy must never let him come to close quarters.

Naturally Davidson wanted to know the reason, for a man without hands did not strike him as very formidable under any circumstances.
"'Mind you don't let him--that's all,' she insisted anxiously, hesitated, and then confessed that the Frenchman had got her away from the others that afternoon and had ordered her to tie a seven-pound iron weight (out of the set of weights Bamtz used in business) to his right stump.