"I know his style." Tempest smiled provokingly.
"I'd sooner walk, sir," said he.

"If the policeman holds me on one side and Mr Jarman on the other--" "Silence, sir," said the doctor sternly, while Mr Jarman raised his brows deprecatingly.
"Am I to come too ?" said I.
"Yes." "I should like Pridgin and some of the fellows to be there too, sir," said Tempest.

"They saw me just before and just after the explosion." "It does not seem necessary to have more boys," said Mr Jarman.
"Not to you!" said Tempest hotly; "the fewer _you_ have the better.

But if you choose to accuse me, I sha'n't ask you whom to have to speak for me." "Tempest," said the head master, "you are only doing yourself harm by this.

Jones, go and fetch Pridgin, and any of the others he speaks of, to the police court; and kindly do not say a word of what has passed here.