You won't do no good by being rough.

I wasn't rough to you when you came to Polyeuka Hall without very much in your pocket.' This was untrue, for Crinkett had been rough, and Caldigate's pockets had been full of money; but there could be no good got by contradicting him on small trifles.

'I was a good mate to you then.

You wouldn't even have got your finger into the "Old Stick-in-the-Mud," nor yet into Polyeuka, but for me.

I was the making of your fortin, Caldigate.