He had talked rather grandiloquently to his mother as to his hating money, and hating the estate.

His mother's never-ceasing worldly cares on such subjects perhaps demanded that a little grandiloquence should be opposed to them.

But Frank did not hate the estate; nor did he at all hate the position of an English country gentleman.

Miss Dunstable's eloquence, however, rang in his ears.

For Miss Dunstable had an eloquence of her own, even in her letters.