While he owned her, Gunner Sobey-who in extra-military hours traded as a carrier and haulier between Troy and the market-towns to the westward-had worked her late and fed her lean; but the most of us behold our receding youth through a mist of romance, and it may be that old worn-out Pleasant conceived herself to be cantering back to fields where the grass grew perennially sweet and old age was unknown.
"The Mayor of Troy"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch