Matilda Tripp voiced the general sentiment.
"Humph!" she sniffed.

"Well, all I can say is that I've met Mr.Thomas two or three times, and _I_ didn't notice anything but politeness and good manners.

Maybe my nose ain't so fine for smellin' liquor as some folks's--p'raps it ain't had the experience--but all _I_ saw was a poor lame man with a black eye.

I pitied him, and I don't care who hears me say it." "Yes," concurred Miss Phinney, "and if he was a drinkin' man, do you suppose Mr.Atkins would have anything to do with him?
Cyrus Whittaker made a whole lot of talk about his insultin' some woman or other, but nobody knows who the woman was.

'Bout time for her to speak up, I should think.