"I'm ashamed to say I've lost my nerve.

Those fellows mean to get at me in the seventh and it will be a Waterloo.

I just feel it in my bones they've been waiting to lambast my offerings then, for I've seen them talking together, and laughing, as though they had a game laid out.

You go in and feed them those teasers of yours.

The boys will take a brace in batting, if you can hold Allandale; and in the end it may not be such a terrible calamity after all." Hugh knew it must be.