If it has to be done through the begging of my friends I decline the honor.

I don't know that I'd care to be any kind of a colonel, anyhow.

I'd have to pass the boys here, and maybe I'd have to command 'em, which would make 'em feel bad.

Old Jack himself might become jealous of me.

I guess I'm satisfied as I am." "I like the modesty of the South Carolinians, Tom," said Dalton.
"There's a story going the rounds that you South Carolinians made the war and that we Virginians have got to fight it." "There may be such a story.