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Answered in sentence

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"His rights would be a long drop and a cracked spine," Sir Lothian answered, and then, changing his manner suddenly, he laid his hand upon my uncle's sleeve.
A hoarse roar of laughter from all the company answered it, and flushed faces craned over each other to catch a glimpse of the veteran.
"Yes, Sir Charles," answered the landlord; "the man is waiting below."
"Don't you believe it," answered the landlord.
"No country hawbuck is going to knock out a man with such a record.""He may be a country hawbuck," the other answered, "but I have been reckoned a judge of anything either on two legs or four, and I tell you, Sir John, that I never saw a man who looked better bred in my life.
"He is the oldest and dearest friend that I have in the world, sir," I answered.
What do you suppose I hold in this bag?""Bullets," said Troubridge."Something that a sailor needs even more than that," answered the admiral, and turning it over he tilted a pile of acorns on to his palm.
A footman answered our knock, and we were ushered into a large drawing-room with sombre furniture and melancholy curtains.
"Yes, your ladyship," answered my father.
How is the wind this morning, Stone?""East-south-east," my father answered, readily.
'Well, it's the only fight 'e'll get,' answered Chris, and that was all I 'eard of it.
"I have a good deal at stake, nephew," said he."So have I, sir," I answered.
"Excuse me, gentlemen," my uncle answered.
"Nothing at all, in all probability," answered my uncle.
By the way, Sir Charles, where is your man?""I would ask YOU that question, Sir Lothian," answered my uncle.
"Sir," answered my uncle, "you are a liar, but how great a liar you are nobody knows save yourself."
"I promise you that we shall," answered my uncle, grimly.
"No," answered the referee.
"This seems to be correct, sir," said he."It is entirely correct," answered the magistrate, affably.
"It is not for a magistrate to wink at the breaking of the law, sir," he answered.
"Tut," answered the west-countryman.
"I hope I see you well, Wilson," said he."Pretty tidy, I thank you," answered the other.
"Their weight has just been taken under my supervision, sir," answered Mr. Craven.
"You'll get more off him than ever you bargained for," answered Jim Belcher, and the crowd laughed at the rough chaff.
He may not have expected his invitation to be so promptly answered; but in an instant, with a panther spring, the west-countryman was on him.
"It's a hundred to a tizzy on Gloucester!""Beat, is he?" answered Belcher.
"My man is un peu passe, but he will come through all right," answered my uncle.
"Very much at your service, gentlemen," answered the strange figure in the dressing-gown.
"Your word is enough for me, Ned; but the world will wish this other question answered also."
I answered that he must take the consequence of his own deed.
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