He must now be no more than--58?
But he had become very stout and obviously suffered from blood pressure without knowing it.

He moved away a little, and David heard him talking to a Master about Lady Crofts, who had come up to London for the season and how they were both very anxious about his boy--"Yes, he had two children, a boy and a girl, bless 'em--The boy had been ill with measles and wasn't makin' quite the quick recovery they expected.

What an anxiety children were, weren't they?
Though we wouldn't be without 'em, would we ?" The Bencher assented out of civility, though as a matter of fact he was an old bachelor and detested children or anything younger than twenty-one.
David after his call was presented with a bill to pay of L99.

10_s._ His father hearing of this, insisted on sending him a cheque for L150 out of his savings, adding he should be deeply hurt if it was not accepted and no more said about it.

How soon was David coming down to see South Wales once more gloriously clothed with spring?
[Much of this review of the years between 1901 and 1905, many of these sweet remembrances are being taken from Vivie's brain as she lies on a hard bed in 1913, musing over the past days when, despite occasional frights and anxieties, she was transcendently happy.