All this we sealed by the most solemn oaths that the mind could think or the lips utter.

I sat up all night with paper and ink, and by the morning I had the two charts all ready, signed with the sign of four,--that is, of Abdullah, Akbar, Mahomet, and myself.
"Well, gentlemen, I weary you with my long story, and I know that my friend Mr.Jones is impatient to get me safely stowed in chokey.

I'll make it as short as I can.

The villain Sholto went off to India, but he never came back again.

Captain Morstan showed me his name among a list of passengers in one of the mail-boats very shortly afterwards.
His uncle had died, leaving him a fortune, and he had left the army, yet he could stoop to treat five men as he had treated us.