[…]her health also having suffered by the change, she immediately, when told of Douglas's projected departure from India, felt the strongest desire to accompany him; and to which Colonel Melbourne the more readily consented, having with reluctance yielded to her request of quitting England, willing as he had been to sacrifice the enjoyment of her society rather than that she should submit to the disadvantages attendant upon a residence in a clime usually found so pernicious to the female constitution.

As the grizzled, almost-retired lawman on the thieves' trail, Bridges adds a layer of mordant worldweariness to “Hell or High Water.”

free ingenuous minds from an overawful esteem of those more ancient than trusty fathers

What we can't ignore is that corflutes are one of the most affordable ways for parties and candidates to get names and faces out in front of the public.