Even the disorder of building lost its ugly crudity in the space and the sunlight.
"The only time I get frightened in life is when things look like that," Ingolby answered.

"I go round with a life-preserver on me when it seems as if 'all's right with the world.'" The violin inside the barber-shop kept scraping out its cheap music--a coon-song of the day.
"Old Berry hasn't much business this morning," remarked Rockwell.

"He's in keeping with this surface peace." "Old Berry never misses anything.

What we're thinking, he's thinking.
I go fishing when I'm in trouble; Berry plays his fiddle.

He's a philosopher and a friend." "You don't make friends as other people do." "I make friends of all kinds.