Did Oil or Sugar or Steel come into the Street with purpose of revenge or profit, its first care was a peace-treaty with Mr.Bayard.That was not because Oil or Steel or Sugar loved, but because it feared him.

The King might not hunt in Sherwood without permission of Robin Hood, nor Montrose walk in Glenfruin wanting the MacGregor's consent.
In his youth--that is to say, almost a third of a century away--Mr.
Bayard had been of open, frank, and generous impulse.

He believed in humanity and relied upon his friends.

Mr.Bayard at sixty was changed from that pose of thirty years before.

He was cold and distant and serene in a cloud-capped way of ice.