But should he on this account,--because she would be, as it were, without means of defence from his attack,--should he therefore take advantage of her weakness?
She would, of course, go back to her London life after some short absence, and would again, if free, have her chance among the favoured ones of the earth.

What had he to offer to her?
He had taken the Clock House for his mother, and it would be quite as much as he could do, when Mrs.Trevelyan should have left the village, to keep up that establishment and maintain himself in London,--quite as much as he could do, even though the favours of the "D.

R." should flow upon him with their fullest tides.

In such circumstances, would it be honourable in him to ask a girl to love him because he found her defenceless in his mother's house?
"If there bain't another for Nuncombe," said Mrs.Clegg's Ostler to Mrs.Clegg's Boots, as Stanbury was driven off in a gig.
"That be young Stanbury, a-going of whome." "They be all a-going for the Clock House.

Since the old 'ooman took to thick there house, there be folk a-comin' and a-goin' every day loike." "It's along of the madam that they keeps there, Dick," said the Boots.
"I didn't care if there'd be madams allays.