You would have been if Merriwell had blowed on you." "That's right, and he would have done so if he had known what was good for him.

He is soft!" "In some things he may be soft, but you must acknowledge he is hard enough in others.

He has a way of coming on top in almost everything." Gage could not deny this, and it made him angry to think of it.
"You are right," he said, fiercely.

"I suppose I was foolish to fight him in the way I did.

That big bully Bascomb got a hold on me, and he has been blackmailing me ever since.