Here! they're going, I suppose.

Look! he wants her to go without a word to the old man; but she is none so changed as that, I reckon." Not Ruth, indeed! She never perceived the dissatisfied expression of Mr Bellingham's countenance, visible to the old man's keen eye; but came running up to Thomas to send her love to his wife, and to shake him many times by the hand.
"Tell Mary I'll make her such a fine gown, as soon as ever I set up for myself; it shall be all in the fashion, big gigot sleeves, that she shall not know herself in them! Mind you tell her that, Thomas, will you ?" "Aye, that I will, lass; and I reckon she'll be pleased to hear thou hast not forgotten thy old merry ways.

The Lord bless thee--the Lord lift up the light of His countenance upon thee." Ruth was half-way towards the impatient Mr Bellingham when her old friend called her back.

He longed to give her a warning of the danger that he thought she was in, and yet he did not know how.

When she came up, all he could think of to say was a text; indeed, the language of the Bible was the language in which he thought, whenever his ideas went beyond practical everyday life into expressions of emotion or feeling.