You said you had an interest in the young gentlemen." "And you never thought it worth while to tell me the thing had turned up ?" "I told Mr Richardson, and said I was sorry for the fright he and his two friends had had.

It never struck me you'd go on bothering about it, or I'd have told you.

Fact of the matter is, I've never seen you from that day to this." "Is that all you want to say ?" said Mansfield, turning to Pledge.
"I can only say this," said Pledge: "that I never saw three boys imitate guilt better.

If they hadn't done it, I should like to ask them why they quaked in their shoes whenever they met me, and why they sent me a round robin, asking me not to tell about them ?" "I can tell you that!" shouted Dick, springing up.
"You needn't wait, Mr Webster," said Mansfield.

"Thank you for coming up." "Thank you, gentlemen," said the tradesman.
"I'm sorry to be mixed up in the matter.