Bokelskere.no

Wherefore, and because he looked with no favourable eye upon young girls, but rather considered that they and the whole female sex were a kind of nonsensical mistake on the part of Nature, he took occasion to retire and shake his head in private at the boiler, [...].

Dolly nodded and smiled, and feeling in her pockets (there were pockets these days) [...].

[...] the blind man [...] sat watching him, if the expression may be used, until it was broad day.

Whether these, and many other stories of the like nature, were true or untrue, the Maypole was really an old house, a very old house, perhaps as old as it claimed to be, and perhaps older, which will sometimes happen with houses of an uncertain, as with of a certain age.