The cheerful influence of the morning seemed to have some effect, even upon his equable temper.

The ladder holdoff enabled him to clean the gutters easily without the ladder's weight damaging them.

He was unsettled by her probing questions.

The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.