He's too proud to make a claim unless he could thoroughly prove it, and only a month ago he made me promise to keep it dark.
He's too lazy to trouble himself about it much anyway--as far as I can see.

D----d if I don't think his being a tramp has made him lose his taste for everything! Don't worry yourself about HIM.

He isn't likely to make confidences with the Saltonstalls, for he don't like 'em, and never went there but once.

Instinctively or not, the widow didn't cotton to him; and I fancy Miss Maruja has some old grudge against him for that fan business on the road.

She isn't a girl to forgive or forget anything, as I happen to know," he added, with an uneasy laugh.
Carroll was too preoccupied with the danger that seemed to threaten his friends from this surly pretender to resent Prince's tactless allusion.
He was thinking of Maruja's ominous agitation at his presence at Dr.
West's grave.