I'm about the best friend she has on earth, I reckon, and she's never uttered a word of complaint to me.

Have you ever seen Dick Moore ?" "No." "Well, I may as well begin at the beginning and tell you everything straight through, so you'll understand it.

As I said, Leslie's father was Frank West.

He was clever and shiftless--just like a man.

Oh, he had heaps of brains--and much good they did him! He started to go to college, and he went for two years, and then his health broke down.
The Wests were all inclined to be consumptive.