"About me, I'll be bound, for you kept looking at me, as though you meant something." "What makes you think so?
Have you heard anything ?" asked Wilton, fearful that the plot had leaked out.
"Not a word?
I only judged by your looks." "I suppose if anything was up, you wouldn't have anything to do with it now." "Most decidedly, I should not.

I like my present position too well to fall out of it.

I'm going to be captain next term, if I can fetch it any way in the world." "You mean to be a flunky, just like the rest of them.

You are not the same fellow you used to be." "Yes, I am." "You are getting too big for your boots." "You wrong me, Wilton.

I'm just as good a fellow as I ever was.