"Cruel! have you not degraded me enough already ?" and the wretched young man burst into tears, and hid his bleeding face in his hands.
One hint of honor made Amyas as gentle as a lamb.

He lifted Eustace up, and bade him run for his life.
"I am to owe my life, then, to you ?" "Not in the least; only to your being a Leigh.

Go, or it will be worse for you!" And Eustace went; while Amyas, catching up the precious packet, hurried to Frank.

He had fainted already, and his brother had to carry him as far as the park before he could find any of the other watchers.

The blind, as far as they were concerned, was complete.