I have raised his wages in grateful acknowledgment of his usefulness to me.

I hate noise." "Is that the reason why you don't keep a watch-dog ?" "I don't like dogs.

They bark." He had apparently some other disagreeable association with dogs, which he was not disposed to communicate.

His hollow eyes stared gloomily into vacancy.

Ovid's presence in the room seemed to have become, for the time being, an impression erased from his mind.