I have lost touch with all that and become half wild and I like this life and the sunshine and being my own master.
Also, if I did, things might be raked up against me, about that man's death.

Also, though I daresay it will make you think badly of me for it, Mr.Quatermain, I have ties down there," and he waved is hand towards the village, if so it could be called, "which it wouldn't be easy for me to break.

A man may be fond of his children, Mr.Quatermain, even if their skins ain't so white as they ought to be.

Lastly I have habits--you see, I am speaking out to you as man to man--which might get me into trouble again if I went back to the world," and he nodded his fine, capable-looking head in the direction of the bottle on the table.
"I see," I said hastily, for this kind of confession bursting out of the man's lonely heart when what he had drunk took a hold of him, was painful to hear.

"But how about your daughter, Miss Inez ?" "Ah!" he said, with a quiver in his voice, "there you touch it.