It is plucky, you know." "He is in all respects as brave a man as I have known." "He sets God and man at absolute defiance, and always does it with the most profound courtesy.

If he goes to the infernal regions he will insist upon being the last of the company to enter the door.

And he will be prepared with something good-humored to say as soon as he has been ushered in.

He was very much troubled about you yesterday." "What has he to say of me ?" "Nothing in the least uncivil; but he has an idea in his head which nothing on earth will put out of it, and in which, but for your own word, I should be inclined to agree." Harry, when this was said, stood still on the mountain-side, and looked full into his companion's face.
He felt at the moment that the idea had some reference to Mountjoy Scarborough and his disappearance.

They were together on the heathy, unenclosed ground of Cannock Chase, and had already walked some ten or twelve miles.