Once I failed him, but he never has gone back on me.

You see he is not a particle afraid of me.

Every step I take, he is at my heels." "So was Bill Sikes' dog, if I remember." The Harvester laughed.
"Bel," he said, "if you could speak you'd say that was an ugly one, wouldn't you ?" The dog sprang up and kissed the face of the man and rubbed a loving head against his breast.
"Thank you!" said the Harvester.

"Now lie down and protect this woman as carefully as you ever watched in your life.

And incidentally, Bel, tell her that she can't exterminate me more than once a day, and the performance is accomplished for the present.