It whiles away dull care for him, and he has the additional exercise of running all the way home." "Ah!" she cried indignantly, "they told me you always answered like this!" "Well, you see the Cross-Roads efforts have proved so purely hygienic for me.

As a patriot I have sometimes felt extreme mortification that such bad marksmanship should exist in the county, but I console myself with the thought that their best shots are unhappily in the penitentiary." "There are many left.

Can't you understand that they will organize again and come in a body, as they did before you broke them up?
And then, if they come on a night when they know you are wandering out of town----" "You have not the advantage of an intimate study of the most exclusive people of the Cross-Roads, Miss Sherwood.

There are about twenty gentlemen who remain in that neighborhood while their relatives sojourn under discipline.

If you had the entree over there, you would understand that these twenty could not gather themselves into a company and march the seven miles without physical debate in the ranks.