DOCTOR AND MRS. JACKSON 



DOCTOR AND MRS. JACKSON were, for all we 

 knew, the oldest pair in the parish : their heads 

 were very grey, and they had an old-world look 

 about them, and an air of wisdom and experience 

 in life, that gave them a place of importance in 

 our society and claimed the respect of us all. 

 Yet I cannot remember that any of us noticed 

 them until they became the intimate friends of 

 the old Scholar. Then we all came to know 

 them, and to feel as though we had known 

 them all our lives. 



Their heads were grey, and their dress was 

 black, and as they lived in the old grey tower of 

 the church they seemed to have something ancient 

 and ecclesiastical about them ; no one inquired 

 into their history or descent ; we took it all for 



