That would account for a good deal--would it not ?" "Yes, but not for all, I think.

There has been no such inquiry made anywhere near us, so far as I am aware.

I went to the Morven Arms last night to meet a tenant, and found the tradesmen were talking, over their toddy, of various events at the castle, and especially of one, the most frightful of all.

It should have been forgotten by this time, for the ratio of forgetting, increases." "I should like much to hear it!" said Donal.
"Do tell him, Hector," said Miss Graeme, "and I will watch his hair." "It is the hair of those who mock at such things you should watch," returned Donal.

"Their imagination is so rarely excited that, when it is, it affects their nerves more than the belief of others affects theirs." "Now I have you!" cried Miss Graeme.