I didn't bring you here for your health.

I brought you here because you can do me a service and yourself one at the same time, and you'll be doing no one any harm, nobody you care about, anyway.

I have no grudge against Miss Beatrice.

I'd just as soon she kept out of the trouble that's coming." "What is this service ?" Tavernake asked.
Pritchard for the moment evaded the point.
"I dare say you can understand, Mr.Tavernake," he said, "that in my profession one has to sometimes go a long way round to get a man or a woman just where you want them.

Now we merely glanced at that table as we came in, and I can tell you this for gospel truth--there isn't one of that crowd that I couldn't, if I liked, haul back to New York on some charge or another.