As hard as iron in a fight there has always been a curious veil of chivalry in the old scout.

He stood and joked with the girl, in his odd fashion, and set us all laughing.

Margaret and her mother enjoyed his talk and spoke of it, often, after that.
"'Wal, Mis Hare,' he said to Her Ladyship, 'if ye graft this 'ere sprout on yer fam'ly tree I'll bet ye a pint o' powder an' a fish hook ye won't never be sorry fer it.' "It did not seem to occur to him that there were those to whom a pint of powder and a fish hook would be no great temptation." 2 "I dressed and went to dine with the Hares that evening.

They lived in a large house on a fashionable 'road' as certain, of the streets were called.

It was a typical upper class, English home.