That night the Troll began to talk to the old dame again.

The kitchen was a crucible, and the old dame a mediaeval alchemist.

Nothing, could be more forbidding than the aspect of the old dame.

But the old dame had been wholly frank in forming Miss Lawrence.

A sad tale of a grand old dame selling off her jewels?

She passed a sleepless night; but in the morning the old dame remarked:

The old dame left the attic, and the pilot got between the sheets.

The old dame threw aside the shoji like an armor, and walked in.

In this surmise the old dame was, for once, at fault.

The pipe was in the old dame's mouth when she said these words.

The old dame then shifted her ground, and turned the discourse another way.

It's lucky that intolerable old dame is under the sod forever.

Then the old dame leapt upon his back as nimbly as a goat.

The old dame has given you no more than your due.

And a bad lot of them too, said the old dame.

It excited, as I anticipated, great admiration from the old dame.