With his brother looking on, and his messmates to watch how he bore it, he passed through the ordeal creditably.

His three "Ohs" varied in cadence from anguish to surprise, and from surprise to mild expostulation, "Oh!" "Ehee!" "Ow!" after which he felt very pleased, on his brother's account, that he had not shed tears.
"Now cut," said the captain, "and if you're bowled out in that sort of thing again, you won't be let off so easy." "Yorke's a beast," said Wally, when the shattered forces mastered once more in his study, "but he's a just beast.

He gave it us all hot alike." No one disputed the proposition.
"I thought he'd let you new kids off, but he didn't.

It's just as well.
It'll do you good, and make you sit up." "Jolly sell for that cad Dangle," said D'Arcy.

"He thought Yorke was going to shirk it." "He can't say that now," said Ashby, rubbing the palm of his hand up and down his thigh.
Dangle, meanwhile, had returned to his quarters with the unsatisfactory report of his mission.
"Bother them!" said Clapperton.