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There were two over; two middle-aged ladies, a maiden and a widow: and they, perhaps more happy than any of the others, certainly more silent for neither of them had a partner to scold, were hard at work at double-dummy in a corner. It was a sight for a stranger!
He stepped on the Grimaldi's deck within five minutes of her arrival, and asked if a Miss Ormiston were on board. There advanced a middle-aged woman, gaunt, wrinkled and unlovely not the woman he had chosen, but the woman he had made. "Ethel?" was all he found to say. "Yes, Bob; I am Ethel. And God forgive you." Of the change in him she said nothing; but held out her hand with a smile.
There was a man once in the Foreign Office a man who had grown middle-aged in the Department, and was commonly said, by irreverent juniors, to be able to repeat Aitchison's Treaties and Sunnuds backward in his sleep. What he did with his stored knowledge only the Secretary knew; and he, naturally, would not publish the news abroad.
The Mischief Maker said that it certainly would be, about the middle of the morrow forenoon. "Then I will start now," said the middle-aged man, "for I am lame, and it will take me all night to get there." So he hurried on, and at daylight entered the village. He found a wigwam, by which several beautiful Indian girls were pounding corn in a great wooden mortar. He sat down by them.
I like him inexpressibly for his heart and for his intellect, and for his flesh and blood; and if he has faults, I do not know them, nor care to know them, nor value him the less if I did know them. He went to his room to dress; and in the mean time a middle-aged, dark man, of pleasant aspect, with black hair, black eyebrows, and bright, dark eyes came in, limping a little, but not much.
A storehouse of knowledge, she made the class work so interesting that the forty-five minutes of recitation usually passed all too quickly. Professor Howe was an unusually able woman, much looked up to by the Faculty and pupils. She was middle-aged past the fortieth milestone, at any rate and somewhat austere in manner.
Then something something struggling violently was lifted high against the sky, a black, vague enigma against the starlight; and as this black object came down again, I saw by the green brightness that it was a man. For an instant he was clearly visible. He was a stout, ruddy, middle-aged man, well dressed; three days before, he must have been walking the world, a man of considerable consequence.
To interfere would have been the part of the middle-aged old-fashioned mother, and for that part Neville had no liking. To be her children's friend and good comrade, that was her rôle in life. "It's good of you to have her," she said to Barry. "I hope you won't be sorry.... She's very stupid sometimes regular Johnny Head-in-air." "I should be a jolly sight more use," Kay remarked.
Also I learned, that Aunt Sarah, a middle-aged woman who worked in the fields, "wanted terrible to come to de Sabbas meetin's, but she war 'shamed to come, 'cause her feet was mos' half out of her shoes; and Mr. Ed'ards wouldn't give her no more till de time come roun."
He gave me, however, a couple of hard crackers and a draught of whiskey and quinine, whereby I rallied for a moment. At General Woodbury's I observed a middle-aged lady, making her toilet by a looking-glass hung against the tent-pole. She seemed as careful of her personal appearance, in this trying time, as if she had been at some luxurious court.
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