But they could not reach her, Ethie did not come, and the term of Richard's governorship glided away, and he declined a re-election, and went back to Olney, looking ten years older than when he left it, with an habitual expression of sadness on his face, which even strangers noticed, wondering what was the heart trouble which was aging him so fast, and turning his brown hair gray.
"Ethelyn's Mistake"
Mary Jane Holmes
The whims of the aging are without logic, so she went to get the pills, leaving Oliver Symmes and the gleaming, sharp knife together, unattended.
"Life Sentence"
James McConnell
I am glad that you came now-I must have been aging very rapidly to have alarmed one who always had such trust in me.
"Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3)"
Frederick William Robinson