Godfrey Eldon sold it; he had his father's taste for speculation, I fancy, and wanted capital.

Then Mr.Mutimer begged them to remain in the house.

He certainly was a wonderfully kind old--old gentleman; his behaviour to Mrs.Eldon was always the perfection of courtesy.

A stranger would find it difficult to understand how she could get on so well with him, but their sorrows brought them together, and Mr.Mutimer's generosity was really noble.
If I had not known his origin, I should certainly have taken him for a county gentleman.' 'Yet he proposed to mine in the valley,' observed Mr.Wyvern, half to himself, casting a glance at the window.
Mrs.Waltham did not at first see the connection between this and what she had been saying.

Then it occurred to her that Mr.Wyvern was aristocratic in his views.
'To be sure,' she said, 'one expects to find a little of the original--of the money-making spirit.