He looks well enough, he acts like a gentleman, he seldom makes a mistake in speech--" "He doesn't say enough to MAKE any mistakes.

I haven't yet heard him talk freely, give an opinion, or discuss a question," said Nancy Ellen.
"Neither have I," said Kate.

"He's very silent, thinking out more inventions, maybe.

The worst thing about him is a kind of hard-headed self-assurance.

He got it fighting for his mother from boyhood.