"Certainly I shall not hide the truth to save Oro's feelings, if he has got any.

If he revenges himself upon us in any way, we must just put up with it like other martyrs." "I haven't the slightest ambition to be a martyr," said Bickley.
"No," shouted Bastin from a little distance, "I am quite aware of that, as you have often said so before.

Therefore, if you become one, I am sorry to say that I do not see how you can expect any benefit.

You would only be like a man who puts a sovereign into the offertory bag in mistake for a shilling.

The extra nineteen shillings will do him no good at all, since in his heart he regrets the error and wishes that he could have them back." Then he departed, leaving me laughing.