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Miriam may abuse my family all she chooses, but I do feel unhappy to think that those girls believe me dishonorable and under-handed." "They wouldn't if they had any sense," responded Grace hotly, "I never believed that those girls could be so snobbish. I always thought them above such petty meanness. Don't pay any attention to them, Anne. They aren't worth it.
"Not with them winds that get you here," said he, "they let out when you're least expecting it and we'd be on to the rocks and done for. I'm not saying if we had a boat crew we mightn't try, but we're under-handed. No, we'll have to hoof it if we go." "Hoof it what is that?" asked she. "Walk it," replied Raft, "and I'm thinking it's beyond you, you aren't fit for travelling rough, like me."
Mr Boffin drew a deep groan. 'Now, wait a bit, Boffin; there's something more. In your employment is an under-handed sneak, named Rokesmith. It won't answer to have HIM about, while this business of ours is about. He must be discharged. 'Rokesmith is already discharged, said Mr Boffin, speaking in a muffled voice, with his hands before his face, as he rocked himself on the settle.
Then he had told it in the library yesterday when they had caught him prowling in the private staircase. All along he had told it while they had tried to convict him of under-handed and unfriendly intentions. "I saw," Paredes was saying, "that Howells wouldn't succeed, and it was obvious you and Rawlins would do worse, while Graham's blundering from the start left no hope.
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