She ventured a direct look at him.

Above the pleasant, kindly eyes there was a brow so unusually well shaped that it arrested even her young and untrained attention.

Whatever the man's character or station, there could be no question as to his intelligence.
"The flies are very bothersome," continued he.

"But nothing like Australia.

There the flies have to be picked off, and they're big, and they bite--take a piece right out of you.