Why, the game's `most played out, an' I haven't showed my hand!...

I'd see Jack Belllounds in hell before I'd let him have Collie.

An' if she carried out her strange an' lofty idea of duty--an' married him right this afternoon--I could an' I would part them before night!" He ended that speech in a voice neither had ever heard him use before.
And the look of him must have been in harmony with it.

Columbine, wide-eyed and gasping, seemed struck to the heart.

Moore's white face showed awe and fear and irresponsible primitive joy.