You are not going off like that to swear at yourself all night.

Sit down in that chair and listen to me!" Casey sat down, swallowing hard.

All the Casey Ryan nonchalance was gone,--never had been with him, in fact, while he faced that Little Woman.
Somehow she had struck him humble and dumb, from the very beginning.

I wish I knew how she did it; I'd like to try it sometime myself.
"Casey Ryan, it's hard for a woman to own herself in the wrong, especially to a man," she said, when he had begun to squirm and wonder what biting words she would say.

"I've always thought that I had as good nerve as any one.