Mr.
Archibald Touris stopped short and, with his back to this structure, faced the company with him, brought thus to a halt.

He looked at them with a carefully composed countenance.
"I am sure, Munro, that Ian Rullock 'watered the gunpowder,' as you cleverly say.

Boys, ma'am"-- to Mrs.Goodworth--"are, as your husband remarks, romantic simpletons.

No one takes them and their views of life seriously.

Certainly not their political views! When they come men they laugh themselves.