Of course where Solomon is one would expect solecisms.

They were not wanting.

I had not tried to prepare him for the ordeal.

Solomon is bound to be himself wherever he is, am why not?
There is no better man living.
"'You're as purty as a golden robin,' he said to Margaret, shaking her hand in his big one.
"He was not so much put out as I thought he would be.

I never saw a gentler man with women.