Don't you recognize him ?" said my stepmother.
"So it is!" he exclaimed.

"But he's grown quite out of my recollection." The man had recovered his self-possession in a moment, and treated me, it must be said to his credit, with marked coolness.

I was likely to get on with him very well, I thought, but the fawning attitude of his wife quite unhorsed me.

If I am to see the devil I'd rather he'd frown than smile.

Cobb had very little to say to us, and left the room at the first opportunity.