Then it rippled and stretched in little waves, until it stopped somewhere near his ears.

Dick regarded him with delight.

It was the broadest and finest smile that he had seen in many a long month.
"Now I know you," said Malachi White, looking intently at the colonel.
"I ain't as strong on faces as some people, though I reckon I'm right strong on 'em, too, but I'm pow'ful strong on recollectin' hear'in', that is, the voice and the trick of it.

It was fo' yea's ago when you stopped at my house.

You had a curious trick of pronouncin' r's when they wasn't no r's.