"What would have been the use ?" "Prov'dence seemed to 've made a putty clean sweep in your matters that spring, didn't it ?" "It seemed so to me," said John.
Nothing more was said for a minute or two.

Mr.Harum appeared to have abandoned the pursuit of the subject of his questions.

At last he said: "You ben here most five years." "Very nearly," John replied.
"Ben putty contented, on the hull ?" "I have grown to be," said John.

"Indeed, it's hard to realize at times that I haven't always lived in Homeville.

I remember my former life as if it were something I have read in a book.