It seemed to her that he had in this simple fashion outraged that which was infinitely higher than he himself.

He had not lived up to her thought of him, and fallen short by a little slip in English which argued a slip in character.

She wanted to reproach him sharply--to ask him if he had ever been to school.
He noticed her manner was cool, and was as far as the antipodes from suspecting the cause.

He never knew that he said "ain't" and "wa'n't," and would die not knowing.

All that he looked at was the substance of thought behind the speech.