The Dean then ran up the great stairs, down one pair of back-stairs, up another, in so violent a manner, that Mrs Pilkington could not help expressing her uneasiness to Mrs Brent, lest he should fall, and be hurted.

For fishing and shuting, he was the cob of all this country!

And they've got lovely names, too. You'll like their names, sighed Nancy. They're 'Algernon' and 'Florabelle' and 'Estelle'. I - I just hate Nancy! Oh, Nancy, what a dreadful thing to say! Why? Because it isn't pretty like the others. You see, I was the first baby, and mother hadn't begun ter read so many stories with the pretty names in them, then.

Officers, who say he [Kautilya Nandan Pruthi] was Britain's most prolific Ponzi fraudster by some way, fear that only around £2m will be returned to his victims.