It was a good fight.
But that fellow-_ach!_ To run away and leave you, an outsider, to fight his battle!" "He would have been sliced in two if I hadn't come to the front.

A hop-pole isn't half bad.

I'll bet that lady's man has a bad arm for some time to come.

As for the vintner, he had good reasons for taking to his heels." "Good reasons ?" But there was a sly look in the clerk's eyes.
"No questions, if you please.

And tell no one, mind, what has taken place." "Very well, Excellency." And quietly the clerk returned to his table of figures.