I am not much over twenty, and am free to confess, do not care to be held much older.

Touching your further inquiry, not to seem churlish, but rather to speak frankly and in a like spirit with yourself, I am not desirous to repeat to others the story that has been, perhaps, but learned in part by myself.

I do not exactly believe that it would promote my plans to submit my affairs to the examination of other people; nor do I think that any person whomsoever would be very much benefited by the knowledge.

You seem to have forgotten, however, that I have already said that I am journeying to Tennessee." "Left Carolina for good and all, heh ?" "Yes--perhaps for ever.

But we will not talk of it." "Well, you're in a wild world now, 'squire." "This is no strange region to me, though I have lost my way in it.