Bob and Jack were worldly, like the rest of us.

The governor got the reputation of being a hard man, and the wine incident did a good deal to add to it.

The point is that there had to be some other way of entertaining the company at the party, besides drinking, card-playing, or dancing.

Of course the older people could discuss the price of land, the county organization and the like; but even the important things of the country were mostly in the hands of young people--and young folks will be young folks.
4 Kittie Fleming was a pretty black-eyed girl, who afterward made the trouble between Bob Wade and his father.

At this party the thing which made it a sad affair to me was the attentions paid to Virginia by Bob.