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Updated: May 7, 2025
A great business it is, Lady John explained to Lord Borrodaile, 'each time to get that crusty old Covenanter, Jean's grandfather, to allow her to stay at Bishopsmead. So it's the sadder for them to have her visit cut short. 'Why is it cut short? he asked. 'Because the hostess took to her bed yesterday with a chill, and her temperature was a hundred and one this afternoon.
Mother was an orphan and lived with her half- uncle, a mighty crusty old man, Uncle Ephraim was, who didn't have one bit of use for people getting married in secret. Father and mother agreed not to mention their marriage till after his graduation; then he'd go to his father and make everything easy, and come for mother. So he went and told him father's father was a millionaire on Wall Street.
But, Reader, I hear you cry, "Halt! halt! pray do not bore us with a dry catalogue of the 'Padre Souchongs' and 'Twankays'; we know them already." Then speak for me, immortal Pindar Cockloft! crusty bachelor that thou art! who hast told that tea and scandal are inseparable, and hast so wittily described a gathering around the urn as
"There is something hidden in the fellow," said he. "For all that he is so crabbed and crusty outside, like an everlasting workday, another man is hidden in him, as fine as Sunday, whether you believe me or not. He appreciates everything beautiful. Mean he may be, and thorny and quarrelsome and quick with his fists. For instance, the token that he marked the boy with for life!"
Sheepshanks had been a crabbed, crusty old bachelor, frequenting inn- parlours on market-days, not unwilling to give dinners to three or four chosen friends and familiars, with whom, in return, he dined from time to time, and with whom, also, he kept up an amicable rivalry in the matter of wines.
"But are you sure, ma'am, that Master Kenneth will go to visit Colonel Crusty?" "O yes, he has promised to escort me there, and then he'll see Bella, and, of course, he won't wish to leave after that."
I think your honor had better step into the house and get something to eat; it will be a long while before we get to Fundy." "D n the house it's a mere trick I'll not eat anything, just to spite them," said the Englishman, still more crusty at the prospect of being so long without his dinner. "They say your honor's very wrong," said John, "to set off at this late hour.
This was ridiculous enough, but it would hardly have affected anyone but crusty old cranks who delight in talking about "young fools," were it not for the fact that Severne was in love. And that brings us to the point of our story. Of course he was in love in a most serious-minded fashion. He did not get much fun out of it. He brooded most of the time over lovers' duties to each other and mankind.
"Robert's voice," said the master on this memorable occasion, "is not strong, but impressive": an opinion which I was fool enough to carry home to my father; who roasted me for years in consequence. I am sure one should not be so deliciously tickled by the humorous pieces: "What, crusty? cries Will in a taking, Who would not be crusty with half a year's baking?"
"I guess that's about the size of it." "When did you see him last?" "Hain't seen nothin' of him sence las' night, an' then he was sorter crusty an' didn't say much. I come down this mornin' an' went to work, he allus left the stable key where I could get it, but I ham' t seen nor heard nothin' o' him.
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