And Granny Sanders said, Law's sakes! nobody'd ever a found him out ef it hadn't been fer her.

Didn't she go all over the neighborhood a-warnin' people?
Fer her part, she seed straight through that piece of goods.

He was fond of the gals, too! Nothing was so great a crime in her eyes as to be fond of the gals.
The constable paid unwitting tribute to William the Conquerer by crying Squire Hawkins's court open with an Oyez! or, as he said, "O yes!" and the Squire asked Squire Underwood, who came in at that minute, to sit with him.

From the start, it was evident to Ralph that the prosecuting attorney had been thoroughly posted by Small, though, looking at that worthy's face, one would have thought him the most disinterested and philosophical spectator in the court-room.
Bronson, the prosecutor, was a young man, and this was his first case since his election.

He was very ambitious to distinguish himself, very anxious to have Flat Creek influence on his side in politics; and, consequently, he was very determined to send Ralph Hartsook to State prison, justly or unjustly, by fair means or foul.