I do cotton to a Western man when I find him off East here, holding his own with the best of 'em, and showing 'em that he's just as much civilized as they are.

We both know what it is to have our bright home in the setting sun; heigh ?" "I think we Western men who've come East are apt to take ourselves a little too objectively and to feel ourselves rather more representative than we need," March remarked.
Fulkerson was delighted.

"You've hit it! We do! We are!" "And as for holding my own, I'm not very proud of what I've done in that way; it's been very little to hold.

But I know what you mean, Fulkerson, and I've felt the same thing myself; it warmed me toward you when we first met.

I can't help suffusing a little to any man when I hear that he was born on the other side of the Alleghanies.