I think there is something the matter with them; they have some melancholy memory or some depressing expectation.

It 's not the epicurean temperament.

My uncle, Mr.Wentworth, is a tremendously high-toned old fellow; he looks as if he were undergoing martyrdom, not by fire, but by freezing.

But we shall cheer them up; we shall do them good.

They will take a good deal of stirring up; but they are wonderfully kind and gentle.