"If they wanted to look sideways at me it was up to them.

And it was up to me to sidestep if I wanted to, wasn't it?
You've no idea, Saxon, how a prizefighter is run after.

Why, sometimes it's seemed to me that girls an' women ain't got an ounce of natural shame in their make-up.

Oh, I was never afraid of them, believe muh, but I didn't hanker after 'em.

A man's a fool that'd let them kind get his goat.
"Maybe you haven't got love in you," she challenged.
"Maybe I haven't," was his discouraging reply.