So the new suit had been finally ordered; and Stephen stood arrayed therein before the altar-rails in the gray old church at Crosber, a far more grotesque and outrageous figure to contemplate than any knight templar, or bearded cavalier of the days of the first English James, whose effigies were to be seen in the chancel.

" "You're a prying old catemeran!" cried Mr. Whitelaw savagely, "and a drunken old fool into the bargain.

" "You're a prying old catemeran!" cried Mr. Whitelaw savagely, "and a drunken old fool into the bargain.

You said no; yet I think you must have seen the name in some of my old college books.

He clung to the estate, not from any romantic reverence for the past, not from any sentimental associations connected with those who had gone before him, but from the mere force of habit, which rendered this grim ugly old house and these flat shelterless fields dearer to him than all the rest of the universe.

That lady was inclined to look somewhat uneasily upon the operation; for the grate had been used constantly throughout a long winter, and the chimney had not been swept since last spring, whereby Mrs. Tadman was conscious of a great accumulation of soot about the massive old brickwork and ponderous beams that spanned the wide chimney.

He came back to the parlour presently, arrayed in an old suit of clothes which he kept for such occasionsan old green coat with basket buttons, and a pair of plaid trousers of an exploded shape and patternand looking more like a pinched and pallid scarecrow than a well-to-do farmer.

He came back to the parlour presently, arrayed in an old suit of clothes which he kept for such occasionsan old green coat with basket buttons, and a pair of plaid trousers of an exploded shape and patternand looking more like a pinched and pallid scarecrow than a well-to-do farmer.

He talked more than usual, and even proposed a game at cribbage with Mrs. Tadman; a condescension which moved that matron to tears, reminding her, she said, of old times, when they had been so comfortable together, before he had taken to spend his evenings at the Grange.

The old eight-day clock in the lobby struck ten soon after this, and the two women rose to retire, leaving Stephen to his night's libations, and not sorry to escape out of the room, which he had converted into a kind of oven or Turkish bath by means of the roaring fire he had insisted upon keeping up all the evening.

Suddenly she remembered an old disused alarm-bell which hung in the roof.

The house was old, built for the most part of wood, and there seemed little hope for it.

They were now joined by the Malsham fire-escape men, who had got wind of some one to be rescued from this part of the house, and were eager to exhibit the capabilities of a new fire-escape, started with much hubbub and glorification, after an awful fire had ravaged Malsham High-street, and half-a-dozen lives had been wasted because the old fire-escape was out of order and useless.

It was afterwards, when she had been established in her old rooms at the Grange, and had taken a little breakfast, that she told Ellen something more about her captivity.

They had carried Stephen Whitelaw to the Grange; and he lay a helpless creature, beyond hope of recovery, in one of the roomy old-fashioned bed-chambers.

Not that old mother Tadman, surely.

She's an artful old harridan; and if my girl had not been a fool, she'd have got rid of her out of hand when she married.

Pretty soon your uncle will be deadwretched old man!

I have always had a theory that invalids and people when they begin to get old and infirm, should be put away some place where they can undergo the unpleasant struggle alone.

But he wished this old man, so very near the mysterious crisis of his affairs, would begin to forego to some extent the habit of a lifetime, become a little more human.

"I am not sorry that I am getting old," said Mr. McCain.

Do you know how old I am.

" Oh, that joyous and heart-breaking voice, running on and onit made all the other voices that she had ever heard seem colourless and unreal "Darlin' idiot, what do I care how old you are?

Almost old enough to be an ancestor!

In the list of plays, namely, appended by the publisher Edward Archer to his edition of the Old Law in 1656, occurs the entry: 'Faithfull Shepheardesse.