By the way, he was surprised to see that the head gardener was the same who had been at Uplands in his father's time; he must be getting an old man, and no doubt shakier on points of detail than he would be likely to admit.
"The Thousandth Woman"
Ernest W. Hornung
Yet-and here was my second note-when I compared the whole of the writing on the cover with the writing on the preceding page, though it seemed the same hand, it seemed to have got stiffer and shakier, as if the writer had grown old between.
"Wilfrid Cumbermede"
George MacDonald