Does he gamble ?" "Well," said Lady Arabella, very slowly, "I don't think he does." If the squire did gamble he must have done it very slyly, for he rarely went away from Greshamsbury, and certainly very few men looking like gamblers were in the habit of coming thither as guests.

"I don't think he does gamble." Lady Arabella put her emphasis on the word gamble, as though her husband, if he might perhaps be charitably acquitted of that vice, was certainly guilty of every other known in the civilised world.
"I know he used," said Lady de Courcy, looking very wise, and rather suspicious.

She certainly had sufficient domestic reasons for disliking the propensity; "I know he used; and when a man begins, he is hardly ever cured." "Well, if he does, I don't know it," said the Lady Arabella.
"The money, my dear, must go somewhere.

What excuse does he give when you tell him you want this and that--all the common necessaries of life, that you have always been used to ?" "He gives no excuse; sometimes he says the family is so large." "Nonsense! Girls cost nothing; there's only Frank, and he can't have cost anything yet.

Can he be saving money to buy back Boxall Hill ?" "Oh no!" said the Lady Arabella, quickly.