I have done it many a time, when I was a boy." "And give us the fruit of your experience now in your old age, eh?
Well, you have a gray head on green shoulders, my lad; and I verily believe you are right.

Who will you take with you to watch ?" "Sir," said Frank, "I will go with my brother; and that will be enough." "Enough?
He is big enough, and you brave enough, for ten; but still, the more the merrier." "But the fewer, the better fare.

If I might ask a first and last favor, worshipful sir," said Frank, very earnestly, "you would grant me two things: that you would let none go to Freshwater but me and my brother; and that whatsoever we shall bring you back shall be kept as secret as the commonweal and your loyalty shall permit.

I trust that we are not so unknown to you, or to others, that you can doubt for a moment but that whatsoever we may do will satisfy at once your honor and our own." "My dear young gentleman, there is no need of so many courtier's words.
I am your father's friend, and yours.

And God forbid that a Cary--for I guess your drift--should ever wish to make a head or a heart ache; that is, more than--" "Those of whom it is written, 'Though thou bray a fool in a mortar, yet will not his folly depart from him,'" interposed Frank, in so sad a tone that no one at the table replied; and few more words were exchanged, till the two brothers were safe outside the house; and then-- "Amyas," said Frank, "that was a Devon man's handiwork, nevertheless; it was Eustace's handwriting." "Impossible!" "No, lad.