And he wanted me--me!--to walk with him across to Mrs.
MacHugh's! We should have been hooted about the Close like a pair of mad dogs;--and so I told him." "All the young men seem to dress like that now, Aunt Stanbury." "No, they don't.

Mr.Gibson doesn't dress like that." "But he's a clergyman, Aunt Stanbury." "Perhaps I'm an old fool.

I dare say I am, and of course that's what you mean.

At any rate I'm too old to change, and I don't mean to try.
I like to see a difference between a gentleman and a house-breaker.
For the matter of that I'm told that there is a difference, and that the house-breakers all look like gentlemen now.

It may be proper to make us all stand on our heads, with our legs sticking up in the air; but I for one don't like being topsy-turvey, and I won't try it.