Never had Miss Sally said so many good words for his rival.

She had almost rebuffed his good offices in the attempt to sell the fire-extinguishers, and had praised Skinner to his face.
Early the next morning he "dropped up" into the office of Attorney Toole, and as that young man lay back in his chair, with his feet on his desk, he told him the whole story.

The attorney smiled.

This was the kind of split in the ranks of the Citizens' Party that he had hoped to promote.
"After that, Colonel," he said, when the Colonel had told him that Skinner had ordered him out of the shop, "you ought to MAKE him buy them." "I wisht I could, dog take him!" cried the Colonel.

"I'd like to make him eat 'em." "Colonel," said Toole, "I see you are, as always, guided by a spirit of conservative kindness.