Do you know him ?" "Very well." "Is he prudent, intelligent, and reliable ?" "I think so." "You only think so, Doctor ?" "I can speak in stronger terms.

As far as one can know another, I am ready to say that _he is_ prudent, intelligent, and reliable.

If I had important business to transact at a distant point, and needed a trusty agent, I would select him before any other man in S----." "I wish no better testimony, Doctor, and am glad to know that I can procure an agent so well qualified." "Have you seen him ?" I inquired.
"No.

But Judge Bigelow is to bring him here today, in order that I may see and converse with him." "You will find him," said I, "a young man of few words and unobtrusive manners--but solid as a rock.

I have seen him under circumstances calculated to test the character of any man." "What are the circumstances, if you are free to speak of them ?" asked Mrs.Montgomery.