Close on their heels was any Texan who had ever said a word against the slaveocracy, or the cotton men, or was suspected of voting for Lincoln.

“Oh!” said Mrs. Venables, “how tiresome it all is. I’m sure you’ll wear your brains right out with all these problems. You mustn’t overdo yourself. …”

She told me to ask so-and-so, but he didn't know, either.

Gowden graith'd his horse before, and siller shod behind […]