The old 'squire, if I rightly recollect, was something stiff in his way, and some people did say he was proud, and carried himself rather high; but, for my part, I never saw any difference 'twixt him and most of our Carolina gentlemen, who, you know, generally walk pretty high in the collar, and have no two ways about them.

For that matter, however, I couldn't well judge then; I may have been something too young to say, for certain, what was what, at that time of my life." "You are not even now so far advanced in years, Mr.Forrester, that you speak of your youth as of a season so very remote.

What, I pray, may be your age?
We may ask, without offence, such a question of men: the case where the other sex is concerned is, you are aware, something different." The youth seemed studiously desirous of changing the direction of the dialogue.
"Man or woman, I see, for my part, no harm in the question.

But do call me Forrester, or Mark Forrester, whichever pleases you best, and not mister, as you just now called me.

I go by no other name.