I tell you, in the strictest confidence, mind, that he has not behaved in a very gentlemanlike way in one particular, and if he was anyone else but who he is, I should have very little to say to him." "Well, my dear husband and son," said Mrs.Buckley, "I will go in and make the AMENDE to her.

Sam, go and see after the Dean." Sam went out, and saw Frank across the yard playing with the dogs.

He was going towards him, when a man entering the yard suddenly came up and spoke to him.
It was William Lee--grown older, and less wildlooking, since we saw him first at midnight on Dartmoor, but a striking person still.

His hair had become grizzled, but that was the only sign of age he showed.

There was still the same vigour of motion, the same expression of enormous strength about him as formerly; the principal change was in his face.
Eighteen years of honest work, among people who in time, finding his real value, had got to treat him more as a friend than a servant, had softened the old expression of reckless ferocity into one of good-humoured independence.