He pities us for having to stay here, I do believe.

And he wouldn't talk of taking money for any enterprise elsewhere, either.

He's either independent or shiftless--both, maybe.

He said," Gideon laughed noiselessly, "he said he wouldn't ever be able to feel free with our money the way he does with his own." * * * * * The Whipples, it proved, would be in no indecent haste to remove their new member from his humbler environment.

On Wednesday it was conveyed to Winona that they would come for Merle in a few days, which left the Penniman household and the twins variously concerned as to the precise meaning of this phrase.