If he had followed me closely, he could hardly have helped hitting one of us, as we went up the steps.

By shutting the door, we gained a few moments, for they were all in confusion in the dim light inside, and would certainly not learn anything, either from the man I pitched in among them, or from the sentry outside.
"I don't suppose any of them had an idea of what had happened, until the sentry shouted to them that we had got over the wall.

Then they rushed up, and fired at random from the top, thinking that we should be running straight from it." They walked along for a short distance, and then Dick said: "I have got my wind again, now.

We will go on at a jog trot.

I mistrust that officer.