The boy should not go; the affair was an outrage.

Leander wasn't strong, anyway; besides, wasn't he his father's principal support?
He couldn't be spared, that's all there was about it, and he shouldn't be.

There was going to be an Exemption Board, wasn't there?
All right--just wait until he, Phineas, went before that board.

He hadn't been in politics all these years for nothin'.

Sam Hunniwell hadn't got all the pull there was in the county.
And then Captain Sam was appointed a member of that very board.