Don't be such a whimpering cur!" "No, sir, please, sir, I won't, sir; but I'm very weak and ill, sir.
Take me with you, please, sir, and I'll do anything you like, sir." "Why, you ought to be ashamed of yourself," said the major sharply, "for thinking that two English gentlemen would be such brutes as to leave a sick and wounded man alone in a place like this.

Eh, Mark ?" "Yes, sir," said the lad, flushing at being called an English gentleman.
"But he is very weak and ill." "That's it, sir--that's it," cried the man piteously.

"You will take me, then ?" "Of course.

Come along," said the major.

"Confound that monkey!" For, while they had been intent upon the man's account of his escape, Jack had been busy covering himself with feathers, as he plucked away at first one and then another of the birds.
"Ah! would you ?" cried the major as Jack chattered fiercely upon the bird being taken from him, and then retreated behind Bruff.
"I'll carry those, sir," said Jimpny.