Mr.Bigler is one of the most important men in the state; nobody has more influence at Harrisburg.
I don't like him any more than thee does, but I'd better lend him a little money than to have his ill will." "Father, I think thee'd better have his ill-will than his company.

Is it true that he gave money to help build the pretty little church of St.James the Less, and that he is, one of the vestrymen ?" "Yes.

He is not such a bad fellow.

One of the men in Third street asked him the other day, whether his was a high church or a low church?
Bigler said he didn't know; he'd been in it once, and he could touch the ceiling in the side aisle with his hand." "I think he's just horrid," was Ruth's final summary of him, after the manner of the swift judgment of women, with no consideration of the extenuating circumstances.

Mr.Bigler had no idea that he had not made a good impression on the whole family; he certainly intended to be agreeable.