They're the best as is going for trade anyhow," said the ostler.

What the ostler said was true.

When there comes to be a feeling that a woman's character is in any way tarnished, there comes another feeling that everybody on the one side may charge double, and that everybody on the other side must pay double, for everything.

Hugh Stanbury could not understand why he was charged a shilling a mile, instead of ninepence, for the gig to Nuncombe Putney.

He got no satisfactory answer, and had to pay the shilling.