"Not to-day Betsy! I can't face my friends just now.

Someway I am making an awful fist of things.

Everything I do is wrong.

She no more trusts me than you would a rattlesnake, Belshazzar; and from all appearance she takes me to be almost as deadly.

What must have been her experiences in life to ingrain fear and distrust in her soul at that rate?
I always knew I was not handsome, but I never before regarded my appearance as alarming.