Even Bloomfield's taking his part--he's gammoned him somehow." "Well, that doesn't prevent your going and hooting him, does it ?" said Gilks, with a sneer.

"You've a right to enjoy yourself as well as any one else." "What! have you come round to worship his holiness too ?" asked Wibberly, who had at least expected some sympathy from Gilks.
"Not exactly!" said Gilks, bitterly; "but I've come round to letting the cad alone.

What's the good of bothering ?" "And you mean to say you'd let him go on knowing who the fellow is who cut the rudder-lines of our boat, and not make him say who it is ?" "I expect that's all stuff about his knowing at all," said Gilks.
"Not it! Between you and me, I fancy he's had a tip from somewhere." "He has?
Bah! don't you believe it.

He'd like to make believe he knows all about it.

It would pay, you know." "But every one thinks he knows." "Not he! He would have told the fellow's name long ago.