Worth, because he was treading on unknown ground; Houston, because he did not wish to force, even by a question, a resolution which he felt sure would come voluntarily.
The jar of tobacco stood between them, and they filled their pipes silently.

Then Worth laid a letter upon the table, and said: "I unstand{sic} from this, that my son Thomas thinks the time has come for decisive action." "Thomas Worth is right.

With such souls as his the foundation of the state must be laid." "I am glad Thomas has taken the position he has; but you must remember, sir, that he is unmarried and unembarrassed by many circumstances which render decisive movement on my part a much more difficult thing.

Yet no man now living has watched the Americanizing of Texas with the interest that I have." "You have been long on the watch, sir." "I was here when my countrymen came first, in little companies of five or ten men.

I saw the party of twenty, who joined the priest Hidalgo in eighteen hundred and ten, when Mexico made her first attempt to throw off the Spanish yoke." "An unsuccessful attempt." "Yes.