Crossword-Solution: LAWFORD 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The only other living creature there seemed to Lawford to be his own rather fair, not insubstantial, rather languid self, who at the noise of the birds had raised his head and glanced as if between content and incredulity across his still and solitary surroundings.

With a slight effort he stooped even once again;— ‘Stranger, a moment pause, and stay; In this dim chamber hidden away Lies one who once found life as dear As now he finds his slumbers here: Pray, then, the Judgement but increase His deep, everlasting peace!’ ‘But then, do you _know_ you lie at peace?’ Lawford audibly questioned, gazing at the doggerel.

But still, even when at last they had actually vanished into the recesses of that quiet habitation, Lawford did not rise from his knees.

You scribbled in the corner under your signature the initials “Y.S.O.A.”—do you remember? They meant, You Silly Old Arthur!—do you remember? Will you please get that letter at once?’ ‘Arthur,’ answered the voice from without, empty of all expression, ‘what does all this mean, this mystery, this hopeless nonsense about a silly letter? What has happened? Is this a miserable form of persecution? Are you mad?—I refuse to get the letter.’ Lawford stooped, black and angular, against the door.

Lawford rose and put the key of the door on his wife’s little rose-wood prayer-desk at her elbow, and deliberately sat down again.