Don't deny it,--it's all written out in your eyes." "I sha'n't deny it, except about the business and the keeping cool.

It's any gentleman's business to interfere between a bully and a weakling that he's abusing; and his blood must be water that does not boil while he 'watches the operation' as you say, and goes in." "To get well pommelled for his pains, and do no good to any one, himself included.

Let the weakling alone.

A fellow that can't save himself is not worth saving.

If he can't swim nor walk, let him drop under or go to the wall; that's my theory." "Anglo-Saxon theory--and practice." "Good theory, excellent practice,--in the main.