People of the name of Tupman, very lately settled there, and encumbered with many low connexions, but giving themselves immense airs, and expecting to be on a footing with the old established families.
A year and a half is the very utmost that they can have lived at West Hall; and how they got their fortune nobody knows.

They came from Birmingham, which is not a place to promise much, you know, Mr.Weston.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham.

I always say there is something direful in the sound: but nothing more is positively known of the Tupmans, though a good many things I assure you are suspected; and yet by their manners they evidently think themselves equal even to my brother, Mr.Suckling, who happens to be one of their nearest neighbours.

It is infinitely too bad.

Mr.Suckling, who has been eleven years a resident at Maple Grove, and whose father had it before him--I believe, at least--I am almost sure that old Mr.Suckling had completed the purchase before his death." They were interrupted.