Are you deaf, or blind, or a fool, Jack Cheatem?
You may cheat the world, but you don't cheat the devil, nor me.

Turn cockney up, with no more ado, or you'll both get kicked to hell some dark night by "BALAAM'S ASS." Henry was silent; quite silent.

When he did speak, it was to ask why Mr.
Cheetham had kept all this from him.
"Because you shouldn't take fright and leave him," was the unhesitating reply.
"For that matter they threaten him more than they do me." "They warn the master first; but the workman's turn is sure to come, and he gets it hottest, because they have so many ways of doing him.
Cheetham, he lives miles from here, and rides in across country, and out again, in daylight.

But the days are drawing in, and you have got to pass through these dark streets, where the Trades have a thousand friends, and you not one.

Don't you make any mistake: you are in their power; so pray don't copy any hot-headed, wrong-headed gentleman like Cheetham, but speak them fair.