He sat gazing at the sky and the broad acres of grass-land.

Presently he heard feminine voices in the house, and knew that two of the neighbors, Mrs.Jim Jones and Mrs.Sam Elliot, had called to see Sylvia.

He resolved that he would stay where he was until they were gone.

He loved Sylvia, but women in the aggregate disturbed and irritated him; and for him three women were sufficient to constitute an aggregate.
Henry sat on the fine old porch with its symmetrical pillars.

He had an arm-chair which he tilted back against the house wall, and he was exceedingly comfortable.