As a rule, to hear of him at all in this part of the world, is to wish that we had not heard.

I see him coming, however, and shall detain you no longer, for I don't deny that there is no love lost between us." I looked round, and there was Rattray on the top of the bank, a long way to the left, coming towards me with a waving hat.

An extraordinary ejaculation brought me to the right-about next instant.
The old clergyman had slipped on a stone in mid-stream, and, as he dragged a dripping leg up the opposite bank, he had sworn an oath worthy of the "godless young man" who had put him to flight, and on whose demerits he had descanted with so much eloquence and indignation..