Your cheek--" (lifting her hand and stroking it, while David tried hard not to wince) "Your cheek's as soft and smooth as it was then, as any young girl's.

Wherever you've been, the world has not treated you very bad.

No one would have dreamt you'd been all the way to South Africa to them Wild Boars.

But some men wear wonderful well.

I suppose your father giv' you a bit of a shock?
He's much older looking; and he wassn't suffering, to speak of, from his sight when you went away.