They all smiled and nodded to him, and when they had gone he was so deeply astonished at this adventure that he had to stop and consider himself.

If the Craggs were nothing to him, what might he not face?
"Come here, Hamlet.

How dare you ?" he ordered in so sharp and military a voice that Hamlet, who had merely cast a most innocent glance at a disdainful and conceited white poodle, looked up at his master with surprise.
Nevertheless, his new-found hardihood received, in the very midst of his self-congratulation, its severest test.

He stumbled into the very path of the Dean's wife.
Mrs.Dean could never have seemed to anyone a large woman, but to Jeremy she had always been a terror.

She was thick and hard, like a wall, and wore the kind of silken clothes, that rustled--like the whispering of a whole meeting of frightened clergymen's wives--as she moved.