If I had swum out with a rope through the surf, there might be something in it; but just to jump in at the edge of the water is not worth making a fuss about, one way or the other." "Not to you, perhaps, young gentleman, but it is to me," the showman said.

"The child is the light of my life, the only thing I have to care for in the world, and you have saved her.

If it had only been by stretching out your hand, I should have been equally grateful.

However, I will say no more about it, but I shall not think the less.
"But don't you believe, madam, that there was no credit in it.

It was just the quickness and the promptness which saved her life.