I ought to have known better than to trust you to buy anything all by yourself." She condescended to approve of my appearance when, an hour later, I came downstairs, garbed in my best.
"Humph!" she vouchsafed, after a long look.

"I declare! I'd hardly know you, Roscoe.

You look more as you used to when you fust come here to live." "Thanks," I answered, drily.

"I'm glad to see that you respect old age.
This suit is venerable enough to command that kind of respect." "'Tain't the suit, though that's all right enough.

It's the way you wear it, I guess.