Why, he's got as flabby as a rabbit and mumbles like a fool!" "Same as you or I at his age," said Helm, taking a chew of tobacco.
"She IS a pretty thing.

Beverley don't know his foot from his shoulder-blade when she's anywhere near him.

Boys are boys.

I'm a sort of a boy myself." "If she'd give up that flag he'd let her go," said Hamilton.

"I hate like the devil to confine her; it looks brutal, and makes me feel like a tyrant." "Have you ever happened to notice the obvious fact, Governor Hamilton, that Alice Roussillon and Father Beret are not all the French in Vincennes ?" "What do you mean ?" "I mean that I don't for a moment believe that either the girl or the priest knows a thing about where that flag is.