In fact, he looked just too sleek and well-fed for anything; and Thad, as usual, gritted his teeth with savage emphasis to think how the fellow was imposing on the good nature of that simple and big-hearted couple.
Then, too, he had the paper in his hand, which evidently Matilda had given over to him immediately she entered.

He made straight for that hammock, as though he had actually heard Jim suggest such a charming possibility.
"Now we're in great luck," Thad breathed, gripping Hugh by the knee, as they crouched in company behind their screen of bushes.

"We can watch, and see just what effect that bombshell has on the skunk!" "Keep quiet, Thad," warned Hugh; "or he might hear you." The reformed tramp seemed to be very particular about his comfort nowadays.

Time was when he could throw himself down carelessly on the hardest kind of ground and rest easy; but since he had taken to living under a roof things were different.

They saw him fix the pillow in the hammock very carefully before he allowed himself to recline there.