They had farmed it all summer, they said, and were tanned so deep a hue that their faces bore no small resemblance to ham.

Ruth brought me some apples in an ochre-colored bag, and Sally eyed me with her old severity.

As they took their accustomed seats at the table, I thought they had swallowed the interval of time which had gone by since they left, so precisely the same was the moment of their leaving and that of their coming back.

I knew grand'ther no better than when I saw him first.

He was sociable to those who visited the house, but never with those abiding in his family.