I did not refer to her, but to the fight.
He did not.

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he was cowardly." "But as you say, it is _said_.

He told me about it, not long afterwards, and I do not think he would have dared had there been anything--" "But I do not make it as a charge," Jacob Welse hastily broke in.
"Merely hearsay, and the prejudice of the men would be sufficient to account for the tale.