The stuff may give me temporary relief." He had felt affronted that any one could suppose one bottle of anything would make a new man of him; and--inconsistently enough--affronted that any one should suppose he needed to be made a new man of.

He had not liked the phrase at all.
"And now perhaps you will tell us----" began Winona, her lips again tightening.

But the Wilbur twin could not yet be brought down to mere history.
"This is an awful fighting dog," he was saying.

"He's called Frank, and he eats them up.

Yes, sir, he nearly et up that old Boodles dog just now.