"First of all, he's a Classic cad." Here the speaker was obliged to pause, on a friendly admonition from the boot of his brother Wally.
"He's a Classic kid," continued he.
"You said cad." "I said cad?
do you hear that, you chaps?
Thinks I don't know how to spell." "You said he was a Classic cad." "There you are; you've said it now.

Kick him, you chaps.

How dare he say he's a Classic cad ?" said Percy.
This verbal squabble being settled at last, Percy proceeded to explain Fisher minor's position.
"If he hadn't come to Fellsgarth, Rollitt would have been smashed to bits over the falls.

And if Rollitt had been smashed to bits--" "He couldn't have bought six Abernethys at the shop," suggested D'Arcy.
"Right you are! And what's more, he couldn't have eaten them if he had, and he couldn't have run away.

There you are, I said this kid was at the bottom of it." "But who'd have collared the money in that case ?" asked Ashby.
Percy reflected.