Dence

Dence burst in at the front door, as white as a sheet, and gasped out in his face: "THE GABRIEL HOUNDS!!"

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

Dence a little; now she was sure he had loved her best.

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

'But,' said she, 'he told me if my name hadn't been Dence he wouldn't trust me with it, though I went on my bended knees.'

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

Dence took me to Raby Hall, and her name was a passport.

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

First of all, there's farmer Dence, with his high bald head, like a patriarch of old; and he sits and beams with benevolence, but does not talk much.

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

I came to tell you I know how generous you have been to me, and made me your friend till death; and, when a Dence says that, she means it.

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

He stopped short, for that moment he remembered Raby had said old Dence was dead, and Patty gone to Australia.

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

He found old Dence dead and buried, and Patty Dence gone to Australia with her husband.

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

Dence had come to look on Saturday and Monday as the only real days in the week, and when even Grace Carden was brighter on those days, and gliding into a gentle complacent custom, suddenly a Saturday came and went, but Little did not appear.

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

Take a drowning Dence into your house, and she is up with the lark to look after your interests.

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849