When Gerald was forty-three, so thickset of body and florid of face that he looked like a hunting squire out of a sporting print, it came to him that ...
But, when Mrs.Wilkes, a great lady and with a rare gift for silence, as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse h ...
His rough manner of speech was too well known to give offense, and it only made the young men grin sheepishly and reply: Well, sir, I hated to trouble ...