Your son will repay me one day, and if he doesn't, what will a trifle like that matter ?" "He certainly shall repay you.

But all the same, Mr.Blake, you have behaved very well and I thank you much," replied his Lordship courteously.
Thus did John Blake become an intimate of that aristocratic family.
Now Lord Lynfield, who was a widower, had one unmarried daughter.

She was an odd and timid little person, with strong religious views, who adored secretly a high-church curate in London.

This, indeed, was the reason why she had been brought to Essex when her infatuation was discovered by one of her married sisters, who, like the rest of the family, was extremely "low." Lady Jane was small in body and shrinking and delicate in character, somewhat mouselike indeed.

Even her eyes were large and timid as are those of a mouse.