Just for that I had him arrested for trespass for going on the farm to take away the machine.

He paid the costs all right, and I hope he learned better manners." This reminiscence, recalled with evident enjoyment, was not wholly encouraging.

It seemed darkly possible that she had cited a precedent applicable to every case where she was haled before a court.

The chairs in Mrs.Owen's office were decidedly uncomfortable; Bassett crossed and recrossed his legs, and pressed his hand nervously to his pocket to make sure of his check-book; for he was prepared to pay his wife's aunt for her shares in the "Courier" newspaper to facilitate her elimination as a co-defendant in the suit at bar.
"It was contemptible of Thatcher to drag you into this, for he knew you took those shares merely to help me out.

I'm sorry it has turned out this way, but I'm anxious to make it right with you, and I'm ready to buy your shares--at your own price, of course." She chose a letter from the afternoon's mail, and opened it with a horn-handled paper-cutter, crumpling the envelope and dropping it over her shoulder into a big waste-paper basket.