What possessed you to be such a soft-head, _I_ don't know.

When you get back a copper of that money I'll believe the millennium's struck, that's all." "Hum! Well, I'll help you believe it--that is, if I have time afore I drop dead of heart disease.

Abbie, you'd make a good lawyer; you can get up an argument out of a perfect agreement.

I said the thirty dollars was lost, to begin with.

But I knew Tim Foster's mother when she used to think that boy of hers was the eighth wonder of the world.