Don't curl up again! You're getting disgracefully round-shouldered.

Like to have a bout with the gloves ?" There was not a shade of ill-feeling in his voice.

Tommy turned round upon him with a smile as involuntary as his exclamation had been.
"What a brute you are, Monck! You have such a beastly trick of putting a fellow in the wrong." "You are in the wrong," asserted Monck.

"I want to get you out of it if I can.

What's the grievance?
What have I done ?" Tommy hesitated for a moment, then finally reached up and gripped the hand upon his shoulder.