So he walked into Squire Plausaby's with his usual assurance, on the second evening after Katy's return.
"Howdy, Miss Charlton," he said, "howdy! I'm glad to see you lookin' so smart.

Howdy, Mrs.Ferret!" to the widow, who was present.

"Howdy do, Mr.Charlton--back again ?" And then he took his seat alongside Katy, not without a little trepidation, for he felt a very slight anxiety lest his flirtation With Perritaut's ten thousand dollars "mout've made his chances juberous," as he stated it to his friends.

But then, he reflected, "she'll think I'm worth more'n ever when she knows I _de_-clined ten thousand dollars, in five annooal payments." "Mr.Sawney," said the widow Ferret, beaming on him with one of her sudden, precise, pickled smiles, "Mr.Sawney, I'm delighted to hear that you made a brave stand against Romanism.

It is the bane of this country.
I respect you for the stand you made.