1
Like the stupid old meddler I was, I tore the wound afresh.
2
Frahender gently removed the bracelet from the hands of the objectionable old meddler.
3
Bless the old meddler, how I thanked her for her treason!
4
Even Bonhoeffer, the pious old meddler whose martyrdom had made history, had been impressed with Liesl.
5
And now, you dear, precious, old meddler, good-by.
6
Something in the boy's resentful face said that I was an impudent old meddler, an officious interloper.
7
Gone was any trace of the fretting old meddler; what stood before them was a ferocious wild beast.
8
"The stupid old meddler!"
9
"I hope, my dear young lady," said he with simple directness, "that you will not regard me as a stupid, interfering old meddler.