"And Mr Bradshaw was just as strict with Jemima, and she's no coward.

But I've no faith in Richard.

He has a look about him that I don't like.
And when Mr Bradshaw was away on business in Holland last year, for those months my young gentleman did not come half as regularly to chapel, and I always believe that story of his being seen out with the hounds at Smithiles." "Those are neither of them great offences in a young man of twenty," said Mr Benson, smiling.
"No! I don't mind them in themselves; but when he could change back so easily to being regular and mim when his father came home, I don't like that." "Leonard shall never be afraid of me," said Ruth, following her own train of thought.

"I will be his friend from the very first; and I will try and learn how to be a wise friend, and you will teach me, won't you, sir ?" "What made you wish to call him Leonard, Ruth ?" asked Miss Benson.
"It was my mother's father's name; and she used to tell me about him and his goodness, and I thought if Leonard could be like him--" "Do you remember the discussion there was about Miss Bradshaw's name, Thurstan?
Her father wanting her to be called Hepzibah, but insisting that she was to have a Scripture name at any rate; and Mrs Bradshaw wanting her to be Juliana, after some novel she had read not long before; and at last Jemima was fixed upon, because it would do either for a Scripture name or a name for a heroine out of a book." "I did not know Jemima was a Scripture name," said Ruth.
"Oh yes, it is.

One of Job's daughters; Jemima, Kezia, and Keren-Happuch.