Blessed if he didn't stake my bay mare.

But what matters?
I mounted him again the next day just the same." Some people thought he was soft, for it was very well known throughout Norfolk that young Grimsby would take a mount wherever he could get it.

In these days Mrs Greenow had become intimate with Mr Cheesacre, and had already learned that he was the undoubted owner of his own acres.
"It wouldn't do for me," she had said to him, "to be putting myself forward, as if I were giving a party myself, or anything of that sort;--would it now ?" "Well, perhaps not.

But you might come with us." "So I will, Mr Cheesacre, for that dear girl's sake.

I should never forgive myself if I debarred her from all the pleasures of youth, because of my sorrows.