His pride is pretty well a match for princes and princesses.
All the same, he shakes in his shoes before her, durst hardly spy at Esslemont again while she's in occupation.

His managing gentleman comes down from him, and goes up from her; that's how they communicate.

One week she's quite solitary; another week the house is brimful as can be.
She 's the great lady entertaining then.

Yet they say it 's a fact, she has not a shilling of her own to fling at a beggar.

She 'll stock a cottage wanting it with provision for a fortnight or more, and she'll order the doctor in, and she'll call and see the right things done for illness.