People said he was rich, but nobody liked him.

He was shaped differently from other men.

I turned the matter over in my mind for a day or two, and then determined to give him a trial.

Being a lonely sort of man, he might make a fuss over me, and if not I could go.
"'My surmise proved correct.

I have never been more petted than I was by "Toady," as the village boys had dubbed him.