"But you'd better leave your own nose behind, my boy, before you start, or there won't be much of it left.

I know Cruden of old." "You won't see much more of him now," sneered Pillans, "now he owes you for his dinner." "It strikes me, Bland was never safer of a six-and-six in his life than he is of the one he lent to-night," said Mr Shanklin.

"Unless I'm mistaken, the fellow would walk across England on his bare feet to pay it back." Mr Shanklin, it was evident, could appreciate honesty in any one else.
He was highly delighted with what he had seen of the new secretary.

If anything could float the Select Agency Corporation, the lad's unsuspicious honesty would do it.

In fact, things were looking up all round for the precious confederates.