Has any one sent you here for me ?" "No, parson," replied Adam, hobbling in.

"There's no call for you to be out on this terrible night, thank Heaven.

It's quite by chance that I left my own fireside myself.

I had an errand at the other end of the village.

The weather caught me returning--a regular blizzard--and I have been floundering about in the drifting snow for hours.