A Rolling Stone by B. M. Croker

The chauffeur was informed that there were no orders for the car the following morning, as "Miss Parrett was suffering from neuralgia in her face," and also -- though this was not mentioned in the bulletin -- a sharp pain in her temper.

Aurea, an early visitor, radiating gaiety, was on this occasion unaccompanied by Mackenzie. Mackenzie, aged six years, was the village tyrant and dictator. He also had been accustomed to consider himself a dog of two houses -- the Rectory and the Red Cottage; and when the Red Cottage had moved to the Manor, and installed an animal of low degree as its pet, he was naturally filled with wrath and resentment, and on two opportunities the intruder had narrowly escaped with many deep bites, and his life!