In strict confidence, I drew certain conclusions from the colour of his nose! He had once had a family, but dropped them somewhere along the road.

Most of our brisk neighbours would have put him down as a failure--an old man, and nothing laid by! But I wonder--I wonder.

One thing I am coming to learn in this world, and that is to let people haggle along with their lives as I haggle along with mine.
We both made tremendous inroads on the luncheon, and I presume we might have sat there talking all the afternoon if I had not suddenly bethought myself with a not unpleasant thrill that my resting-place for the night was still gloriously undecided.
"Friend," I said, "I've got to be up and going.

I haven't so much as a penny in my pocket, and I've got to find a place to sleep." The effect of this remark upon Mr.Canfield was magical.

He threw up both his hands and cried out: "You're that way, are you ?"--as though for the first time he really understood.