Pet had not seemed to realize that alley methods of defense were not in good repute in the army.

He could not believe that Pourquoi and N'est-ce-pas had no guile in their hearts when they pawed at him.

Furthermore, he seemed to have a prejudice against enlisted men and showed his teeth at several of them.
Katie began to explain that that was because--but Wayne had curtly cut her short with saying that he didn't care why it was, the fact that it was had made it impossible to have the dog around.

If one of the men had been bitten by the contemptible cur Katie couldn't cauterize the wound with the story of the dog's hard life.
The only bright spot she could find in it was that probably Watts had taken a great deal of pleasure in executing Wayne's orders--and Caroline Osborne said that all needed pleasure.
She saw that Ann's hands were clenched, and so had not pursued the discussion.
Katie was not in high favor with her brother that night.

He said it was outrageous she should not have been there to receive Mrs.Prescott.