Excerpt from The Attorney, or the Correspondence of John Quod
One fine afternoon, in the month of October, in strolling a short distance out of the city, I fell in with a tall elderly man, clad in a suit of rusty black. His silvery hair hung over his shoulders, and he had a slight stoop in his gait, as if time were beginning to tell upon him. There was an expression of great benevolence in his face, and a mild, yet joyous twinkle in his eye, indicative of fine feeling. He was watching a group of boys at play on the grass; and occasionally I heard a merry laugh gush from the old fellow, which drew me to his side. I am generally averse from forming acquaintance with strangers; but there was something in the look and manner of this man that attracted me, and induced me to overstep old prejudices. I easily made an excuse to enter into conversation with him, and found him to be the warm-hearted, guileless old man that his looks betokened.
'A merry group they are. God bless them!'
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