I wish he lived in the country.

Eight hundred a year, my dear ?" she had said to Mrs Dale.

"That sounds nice down here, because we are all so poor.

But I suppose eight hundred a year isn't very much up in London ?" "The squire's coming, I suppose, isn't he ?" said Mrs Hearn, as she seated herself on the sofa close to Mrs Dale.
"Yes, he'll be here by-and-by; unless he changes his mind, you know.
He doesn't stand on ceremony with me." "He change his mind! When did you ever know Christopher Dale change his mind ?" "He is pretty constant, Mrs Hearn." "If he promised to give a man a penny, he'd give it.

But if he promised to take away a pound, he'd take it, though it cost him years to get it.