I promised to let you pass and I shall.
No one shall say that Dick Dawson's word isn't as good as his bond; and his bond is worth a good deal.

He ought to know something of bonds too, seeing the way the money was made." So he mocked at himself when he was not mocking at me.

I did not altogether trust him, but I made up my mind that if he was rude to me again my poor dog should protect me as she had done before.

But after all there was no necessity, for with a sudden movement my enemy lifted his hat, turned away and walked down the road, smiling at me, as he went, over his shoulder.
Never was any one so glad of a place of refuge as I was when I went in at the postern gate in the wall and was within our own woods.

I tried to shoot the rusty bolt into its place, but it had been unused for years and I could not move it, so I let it be.