He was a fine old gentleman.

You would hardly imagine him ever to have been a naval officer; he was quite the elderly, spectacled professor in his bearing and manner." "I suppose even a man bred to the sea loses the look of a sailor if he lives inland long enough," Bassett observed.
"I think my brief interview with him rather indicated that he had been a man of action--the old discipline of the ship may have been in that," remarked Harwood.

Then, fearing that he might be laying himself open to questions that he should have to avoid answering, he said: "Kelton wrote a good deal on astronomical subjects, and his textbooks have been popular.

Sylvia Garrison, the granddaughter, is something of a wonder herself." "Bright girl, is she ?" "Quite so; and very nice to look at.

I met her on the train when I went to Boston with those bonds in January.