Tom and I came down together from the town." "I presume you do have some sort of friends in here," began Barkley, patronizingly.
"I have never found any in the world worth having except here," replied Dan Anderson, quietly.
"Oh, now, don't say that.

Mr.Ellsworth tells me that he has known you for a long time, and has the greatest admiration for you as a lawyer." "Yes, Mr.Ellsworth is very fond of me.

He's one of the most passionate admirers I ever had in my life," said Dan Anderson.
Barkley looked at him again keenly, realizing that he had to do with a quantity not yet wholly known and gauged.
Socially the situation was strained, and he sought to ease it after his own fashion.

"You see," he resumed, "Mr.Ellsworth seems to think that he can put you in a way of doing something for yourself up at Heart's Desire." It was an ugly thing for him to do under the circumstances, but if he had intended to humiliate the other, he met his just rebuke.
"I don't often talk business at breakfast in my own house," said Dan Anderson.

"Do you use tabasco with your _frijoles_ ?" "Oh, we'll get together, we'll get together," Barkley laughed, with an assumed cordiality which did not quite ring true.
"Thank you," Dan Anderson remarked curtly; "you bring me joy this morning." He did not relish this sort of talk in the presence of Constance Ellsworth.