I am risking a position which it has taken me twenty years to secure.

I've got to tell you these things, and you must do as I tell you.

Go back to London!" Duncombe laughed as he rose to his feet.
"Not though the Vicomte's fate is to be mine to-night," he answered.
"The worse hell this place is the worse the crew it must shelter.

I should never hold my head up again if I sneaked off home and left the girl in their hands.

I don't see how you can even suggest it." "Only because you can't do the least good," Spencer answered.