Don't be uppish about it--will you ?' 'You have nothing to fear on that point,' said Evan.

With which promise the peace was signed between them.

Drummond and William Harvey were cordial, and just laughed over the incident.

Laxley, however, held aloof.

His retention of ideas once formed befitted his rank and station.
Some trifling qualms attended Evan's labours with the diplomatist; but these were merely occasioned by the iteration of a particular phrase.
Mr.Goren, an enthusiastic tailor, had now and then thrown out to Evan stirring hints of an invention he claimed: the discovery of a Balance in Breeches: apparently the philosopher's stone of the tailor craft, a secret that should ensure harmony of outline to the person and an indubitable accommodation to the most difficult legs.
Since Adam's expulsion, it seemed, the tailors of this wilderness had been in search of it.