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Updated: May 4, 2025
"`Oh, pretty well for an old man; and so you're my grandson, Harry; glad to see you. You may go, Mrs Meshin, and shut the door, and do you hear, don't listen at the key-hole. "The stately lady, Mrs Meshin, growled, and then left the room, slamming the door. "`She is very cross, grandson, said the old man, `and I see nobody but her.
"I followed the woman, and when about a hundred yards from the inn, she stopped at the door of a small house, and called to Mrs Meshin, to `go up and tell old Roberts that one of his grandsons is here. A snuffy old woman made her appearance, peered at me through her spectacles, and then stumped up a pair of stairs which faced the door. Shortly afterwards I was desired to come up, and did so.
I found an old man with silver hair lying in bed, and the said Mrs Meshin, with her spectacles, smoothing down the bed-clothes, and making the place tidy. "`What cheer, old boy? said I, after T.P. Cooke's style. "`What do you say? I'm hard of hearing, rather, replied the old man. "`How do you find yourself, sir? said I.
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