What so easy now as to suspect the two women who were never known to buy either bread or butcher's meat?
You can guess! A rabble marched up from the town and broke in upon them.

It found nothing, of course; and I am told that at sight of the face of the poor elder sister it fled back in panic, leaving the place a wreck.
"It so happened that M.Benest had pretermitted his angling, that afternoon, for a stroll along the cliff: but he heard the news on his return, from his landlady, while he sat at tea--that is to say, he heard a part of it, for before the story was out he had set down his teacup, caught up hat and stick, and stumped out of the house.

The most of the townspeople were indoors at tea, discussing the sensation; the few he encountered had no greeting from him.

He looked neither to the right nor to the left; had no ears for his friends, the trout, as they rose at the evening flies.

He reached the signpost and--walked past it! He stumped straight up to the garden gate, which stood ajar, and pushed it wide with his stick.
"There were signs of trampling on the flower-beds; but--for it was July--the whole garden blazed with hollyhocks, oeillets, sweet Williams, sweet peas, above all with that yellow flower--mimulus, monkey flower, is it not ?--which grows so profusely in gardens beside streams.