It is an experiment, and a useful one; and had I, myself, been in your place, I do not know that I could have done aught more than you did." Sinclair was hot tempered, but of a generous disposition, and he held out his hand to Oswald, frankly.
"It was a fair fight," he said, "and you worsted me, altogether.

No one bears malice for a fair fall, in a joust." "The conditions were not at all even," Oswald said.

"On a pony like mine, unless you had caught me in full career, it was impossible that the matter could have turned out otherwise." "I often wondered," Hotspur said, as they walked towards the gate, "that our chivalry should have been so often worsted by the rough Scottish troopers; but now I understand it.

The Scotch always choose broken ground, and always scatter before we get near them; and, circling round, fall upon our chivalry when their weight and array are of no use to them.

Happily, such a misadventure has never happened to myself; but it might well do so.