This fellow may be one of the unfortunate order of virtuous people, cursed with an unbecoming visage.

We will see before we shoot." Thus thought our traveller, quickly, as became his situation.

He determined accordingly, while foregoing none of his precautions, to see farther into the designs of the stranger, before he resorted to any desperate issues.

He replied, accordingly, to the requisition of the speaker; the manner, rather than the matter of which, had proved offensive.
"Toll! You ask toll of me! By what right, sir, and for whom do you require it ?" "Look you, young fellow, I am better able to ask questions myself, than to answer those of other people.

In respect to this matter of answering, my education has been wofully neglected." The reply betrayed some intelligence as well as insolence.