She has said to me more than once that--" "Oh, don't lie to me!" snarled young Tresslyn, but Simmy did not fail to note the quickening of interest in his sullen eyes.
"More than once," he went on, following up the advantage, "she has expressed the opinion that with half a chance you would have been more than half a man." "'Gad," said George, wonderingly, "I--I can almost believe you now.

That's just the way she would have put it.

God knows, Simmy, you are not smart enough to have said it out of your own head.

She really thinks that, does she ?" "We'll talk it over to-morrow," said the other, quite well pleased with himself.

Young Tresslyn was breathing heavily, as if his great lungs had expanded beyond their normal capacity.