I suppose he would have gone to see you but for the unfavorable reports that he heard.

I hope, Ralph, you too will make the friendship of Dr.Small.And for the sake of your poor, dead mother"-- here Aunt Matilda endeavored to show some emotion--"for the sake of your poor dead mother--" But Ralph heard no more.

The buckwheat-cakes had lost their flavor.

He remembered that the colt had not yet had his oats, and so, in the very midst of Aunt Matilda's affecting allusion to his mother, like a stiff-necked reprobate that he was, Ralph Hartsook rose abruptly from the table, put on his hat, and went out toward the stable.
"I declare," said Mrs.White, descending suddenly from her high moral stand-point, "I declare that boy has stepped right on the threshold of the back-door," and she stuffed her white handkerchief into her pocket, and took down the floor-cloth to wipe off the imperceptible blemish left by Ralph's boot-heels.

And Mr.White followed his nephew to the stable to request that he would be a little careful what he did about anybody in the poor-house, as any trouble with the Joneses might defeat Mr.
White's nomination to the judgeship of the Court of Common Pleas..