It will give you your step." "Yes, I won't say that it is lucky, for one cannot forget how it has been gained.

Still it is a good lift for me, for there are two or three down for purchase below me, and otherwise I should have had to wait a long time.

It puts you one higher on the list, Captain Mallett." "I am going to clear out altogether as soon as the fighting is all over, so whether I am fourth or fifth on the list makes no difference whatever to me." "Still it is a great satisfaction to have been through this and to have taken one's share in the work of revenge.

It was a horrible business in the Secunderbagh, though one did not think of it at the time.

The villains richly deserved what they got, but I own that I should not care to go into the place again.