"If he did recognize you, he was awful stiff about it. He hardly spoke to you, if you did work for him before I was born."
"That's his way, Robert. He is a great man now, and I s'pose he don't make much of folks beneath him. But he's a fine man, and I always liked him."
"He may be a fine man, but he has a very awkward way of showing it. Why didn't he shake hands with you, and look as though he had seen you before?"
"That isn't his way, Robert; and he is rich enough to do just as he pleases."
"I don't believe he is rich enough to be hoggish," added Bobtail, whose impressions of Colonel Montague were not altogether favorable.
"But he is a good man, and has a very kind heart. He will do almost anything for poor people."
"I should like to sail in that yacht first rate; but I would rather go with somebody that isn't so stiff as Colonel Montague. That sailing-master seems to be afraid of him, and daresn't say his soul's his own."
"Did you expect Colonel Montague to take off his hat to you, and treat you like a nabob?" asked Mrs. Taylor, indignantly.
"I didn't expect him to say anything to me; but if you used to work for him, I should think he would have spoken a civil word or two to you."
"And so he did. He spoke to me when you were looking at the vessel; and he spoke very kindly to me, too."