"My brother never laid hands on you.

You know that." "No more he didn't.

He never had the gumption.

Just the same, he's better stock than that tough crowd you run with, if he can't make a livin' an' keep his wife in three pairs of shoes.

Just the same he's oodles better'n your bunch of hoodlums that no decent woman'd wipe her one pair of shoes on.