Here was the whole responsibility shifted upon my miserable shoulders.

Not a lady in the neighborhood to whom I could apply for assistance, and the nearest shop eight miles distant from us.

The toughest case I ever had to conduct, when I was at the Bar, was plain sailing compared with the difficulty of receiving our fair guest.
It was absolutely necessary, however, to decide at once where she was to sleep.

All the rooms in the tower were of stone--dark, gloomy, and cold even in the summer-time.

Impossible to put her in any one of them.