His character belonged to a type found both among men and women; it was a nature entirely selfish and endowed with an instinctive art in working upon the unselfish sentiments of others--an art which even creates unselfishness in other selfish beings.
"I came as soon as I could," she said.

"I suppose you did not want me to put Toyner on your track." "Yee owe," said the wretched man, stretching himself luxuriously.

"I've been a-standin' up and a-sittin' down and a-standin' up since last night, an'-- --" Here he suddenly remembered something.

He sat up and looked round fearfully.
"When it got dark before the moon came I saw the devil! One! I think there was half a dozen of them! I saw them comin' at me in the air.

I'd have gone mad if they hadn't gone off when the moon rose." "Lie still, father, until I give you something to eat," she said.
While she was unfastening her bundle, she looked about her, and saw how the spaces of shadow between the grey branches might easily seem to take solid form and weird shape to a brain that was fevered with excitement of crime and of flight and enforced vigil.