Crossword-Solution: MACBRIDE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The last I saw of them, on a recent visit to the north, was at a dinner-party in the house of my old friend Gellatly Macbride; and after we had, in classic phrase, ‘rejoined the ladies,’ I had an opportunity to overhear Flora conversing with another married woman on the much canvassed matter of a husband’s tobacco.

MacBride had fixed upon me his full, mastering eye; and it occurred to me that if they had policemen in heaven, he would be at least a centurion in the force.

MacBride held the rest of us, “before undertaking my journey that I should find a desolate and mainly godless country.

MacBride, while we smoked apart from the ladies, had repaired to his quarters in the foreman’s house previous to the service which he was shortly to hold.

MacBride was able to make a prayer and to read Scripture without my being conscious of a word that he had uttered.