He looks too evil a creature ever to have yielded to the softening influence of a pipe.' 'An evil creature! What, old Sam?
Why he is the most genial old thing, and as cheery--loves to hear the newspaper read to him--the murders and railway accidents.

He doesn't care for politics.

Everybody likes old Sam Barlow.' 'I fancy the Grasmere idea of reverend and amiable age must be strictly local.

I can only say that I never saw a more unholy countenance.' 'You must have been dreaming when you saw him,' said Mary.

'Where did you meet him ?' 'On the Fell, about a quarter of a mile from the shrubbery gate.' '_Did_ you?
I shouldn't have thought he could have got so far.