The name was not a common one; it was worth while to spend a hope or two on the chance of doing Jane a kindness.

Her look and voice when he bade her be of good courage had touched him.

In his rejected state, he felt that it was pleasant to earn gratitude even from so humble a being as the Peckovers' drudge.
His workshop, it has been mentioned, was in St.John's Square.

Of all areas in London thus defined, this Square of St.John is probably the most irregular in outline.

It is cut in two by Clerkenwell Road, and the buildings which compose it form such a number of recesses, of abortive streets, of shadowed alleys, that from no point of the Square can anything like a general view of its totality be obtained.