"You're such a manly man, if you'll excuse my sayin' so.

I only wish there was more like you," with a significant glance at her husband.

As for Miss Phinney, she might have been saying good-by yet if the captain had not excused himself.
Asaph accompanied his friend to the house on the hill.

The trunk was unloaded from the wagon and carried into the bedroom on the first floor, the room which had been Captain Cy's so long ago.

Gabe shrieked at Dan'l Webster, and the depot wagon crawled away toward the upper road.
"Got to meet the up train," grumbled the driver.