I was indeed about to turn it out when you entered, after which I lost sight of it for a moment.

Rupert, go home." Rupert howled again, and lay down as if about to faint.
"Forty years have I been Vicar of this parish," said the veteran, "and never----" "What ?" interrupted the Vicar, "Forty years Vicar of this parish.

Then you must be Canon Burstley-Ripp.

How very extraordinary, I always understood that he passed away quite ten years ago." He approached the old man and strove to button-hole him.

The sheet at first foiled him in this intention, but he presently contented himself with seizing a little corner of it, by which he led his aged brother vicar into a corner.