We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on

Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by his own intestines.' At this piece of dramatic exposition, I could not hep but roll my eyes. A length of intestines would not carry the weight of a child, much less a full grown man.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said. (137)

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.