I mean, just because Sam Kimper don't agree with me.

I don't suppose the thing would have come to anything, anyhow, if it hadn't been for that fool of a young lawyer setting his foot in it in the way he did.

Everybody likes excitement, and it's a bigger thing for him to have gone into this protracted meeting than it would be for a circus to come to town with four new elephants.

It's rough." The deacon took a few papers from his pocket, looked them over, his face changing from grave to puzzled and from puzzled to angry and back again through a whole gamut of facial expressions.

Finally, he thrust the entire collection back into his pocket, and said to himself,-- "If he keeps on at that work, I may have as much trouble as he let on that I would.