The old scandals about Jeff were revived again, and the general opinion seemed to be that the Gaylord boys were degenerates through and through.

Rad's personal friends stood by him staunchly; but they formed a pitifully small minority compared to the general sensation-seeking public.
I visited Radnor in the Kennisburg jail on the morning of my uncle's funeral and found him quite broken in spirit.

He had had time to think over the past, and with his father lying dead at Four-Pools, it had not been pleasant thinking.

Now that it was too late, he seemed filled with remorse over his conduct toward the old man, and he dwelt continually on the fact of his having been unwilling to make up the quarrel of the night before the murder.

In this mood of contrition he mercilessly accused himself of things I am sure he had never done.