Impatience caused her foot to beat silently on the carpet, and she more than once rose to leave the table.

This proceeding was checked by her father, who would put his hand upon her shoulder and unceremoniously press her down into her chair, till he should have concluded his observations.

Her replies were brief enough, and there was factitiousness in her smiles of assent to his views.

A small iron casement between two of the mullions was open, and some occasional words of the dialogue were audible without.
'As for drains--how can I put in drains?
The pipes don't cost much, that's true; but the labour in sinking the trenches is ruination.

And then the gates--they should be hung to stone posts, otherwise there's no keeping them up through harvest.' The Squire's voice was strongly toned with the local accent, so that he said 'drains' and 'geats' like the rustics on his estate.
The landscape without grew darker, and the young man's figure seemed to be absorbed into the trunk of the tree.