It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

“seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing sp…”

“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed o…”

“There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward" -…”

“It was one January morning, very early—a pinching, frosty morning—the cove all …”