"He told me often he regretted it mo' than anything he'd ever done.

He said it was most aggravatin' having to always lug a gun wherever he went.

And what with being suspicious of strangers when he wa'n't suspicious by nature, he reckoned in time it would just naturally wear him out." "He stood it until he was risin' eighty," said Crenshaw.
"His, father lived to be ninety, John, and as spry an old gentleman as a body'd wish to see.

I don't uphold no man for committing murder, but I do consider the sheriff should have waited on Baldy to get mo' reasonable, like he'd done in time if they'd just let him alone--but no, sir, he reckoned the law wa'n't no respecter of persons.

He was a fine-appearin' man, that sheriff, and just elected to office.