"A great tall thing it looked, like a white shadder.

I wonder I be alive!" "So do I," irascibly cried Mr.Verner.

"Which way was it going?
Towards the village, or in this direction ?" "Not in either of 'em, sir.

It glided right off at a angle amid the trees." "And it was that--that folly, that put you into the state of tremor in which Broom found you ?" said Mr.Verner.

"It was nothing else ?" "I declare, before Heaven, that it was what I saw as put me into the fright young Broom found me in," she repeated earnestly.
"But if you were so silly as to be alarmed for the moment, why do you continue to show alarm still ?" "Because my husband says he'll shake me," she whimpered, after a long pause.