Whatever chance there may have been before of discovering any mislaid article, it was now hopelessly and irredeemably gone.
He dismissed the two youngsters with a kick, which they felt to be very ungrateful after all the trouble they had taken.

Limp in spirits and grimy in personal appearance, they crawled away to the shop to console themselves with ginger-beer and a cheese-cake.
"Hullo," said Lickford, as they arrived, "what have you been up to?
Sweeping the chimneys?
I heard they wanted it on your side.

What'll you have?
We've been doing prime.

Where have you been ?" "We've been hunting about in my senior's study for some club money that's lost; about four pou--" "Shut up!" said Ashby, nudging his companion.

"What do you want to blab all over the place about it for ?" "How much ?--four pounds ?" said a voice near; and looking round, to their horror they saw Dangle.
"All right," said Ashby, trying to save the situation, "it's bound to turn up.