But we are still more necessary to him in other ways: the unfriendly man is usually the one who demands most from his neighbours.

Thus, if he have not people's love or confidence, then he will smite them until they fear him, or admire him, or hate him.

Oh, no man, however may try, can hold himself aloof! I came home deeply stirred from my visit with Old Toombs and lost no time in making further inquiries.

I learned, speedily, that there was indeed something in the old man's dread of a road being built through his farm.

The case was already in the courts.