He's making me plumb nervous and afraid to be around him, he's so fatal." "We'll go at once, William.

Walland is drinking a great deal more than he should, but I don't think he means to be boastful over so unfortunate an affair.

Do you think you are taking an altogether unprejudiced view of the matter?
Our judgment," he added deprecatingly, "is so apt to be warped by our likes and dislikes." "Well, if that was the case here," Billy told him shortly, "I've got dislike enough for him to wind my judgment up like a clock spring.
I'll go see if Flora and her mother are ready." In that way he avoided discussing the Pilgrim, for Dill was not so dull that he failed to take the hint..