Besides, he had met with sorrows that deepened the shadows that lay across his pathway.

In that little cabin he had seen a young wife close her eyes in death, and his only child, a sweet girl of five years, not long afterward was laid beside her mother.

Many said that Hugh buried his heart with Jennie and had not been the same man since.

He was reserved, except to one or two intimate friends.

Shaggy, beetle-browed and unshaven, his looks were anything but pleasing to those who did not fully know him.
Tom Hansell was much the same kind of man, except that he lacked the book education of his companion and leader.