He merely snapped a match short off between his thumb and forefinger and ground the pieces into the dirt with his heel.

Into the sunlight that had shone placidly upon the castle he had builded in the air for Dill and for himself--yes, and for one other--crept a shadow that for the moment dimmed the whole.
"Say, Dilly, it's hell when things happen yuh haven't been looking for and can't help," he said at last, smiling a little.

"I'd plumb got my sights raised to having a big chunk uh Montana land under a Double-Crank lease, but I reckon they can come down a notch.

We'll come out on top--don't yuh worry none about _that_." "I'm not worrying at all, William.

I did not expect to have everything come just as we wanted it; that, so far, has not been my experience in business--or in love." The last two words, if one might judge from the direction of his glance, were meant as pure sympathy.
Billy colored a little under the brown.