I have always conducted myself in his presence as a gentleman must, with the result that he has never failed to be chatty.
He is a trifle condescending, to be sure; he does not forget the difference in our stations, but he does not permit himself to study me with eyes of blank indifference, nor is he reticent to the verge of hostility.

Of course he feels indifferent to me,--nothing else could be expected,--but his captors have taught him to be gracious in public.
And, really, Miss Lansdale, you seemed strangely tame and broken to-day yourself.

You have not only received a good English education, but you answer all proper questions with a condescension hardly more marked than that of the wild person's.

I can only pray you won't resume a manner that will inevitably recall him to me to your own disadvantage." She rowed in silence against the gentle current, but she lifted her eyes to me with a look that was not all Lansdale.

There was Peavey in it.