" "A smart cavalier, old Swarthmore," assented Sir Michael gruffly, "and nathless, a true friend to you, Endicott," he added significantly.

Words ending with any double letter, preserve it double before any additional termination, not beginning with the same letter; as in the following derivatives: wooer, seeing, blissful, oddly, gruffly, equally, shelly, hilly, stiffness, illness, stillness, shrillness, fellness, smallness, drollness, freeness, grassless, passless, carelessness, recklessness, embarrassment, enfeoffment, agreement, agreeable.

He was white in the face and had wanted to run, but mastered his voice and enquired gruffly "Who the devil are you?"

"The other two men looked round sharply, and one of thempresumably Fredretorted gruffly, 'Then go and shut it.

Myra did not dare take his arm, and he spoke a little gruffly.

Lifting the pack to his own strong shoulders, her companionhis eyes avoiding hers in shamesaid gruffly, "Come.