The people about the Mary said that she was fairer and sweeter to look at even than the elder sister.

Mrs.Heathcote was the taller of the two, and the larger-featured.

She certainly was the higher in intellect, and the fittest to be the mistress of such an establishment as that at Gangoil.
When he had washed his hands and face, and had swallowed the very copious but weak allowance of brandy-and-water which his wife mixed for him, he took the eldest boy on his lap and fondled him.

"By George!" he said, "old fellow, you sha'n't be a squatter." "Why not, Harry ?" asked his wife.
"Because I don't want him to break his heart every day of his life." "Are you always breaking yours?
I thought your heart was pretty well hardened now." "When a man talks of his heart, you and Kate are thinking of loves and doves, of course." "I wasn't thinking of loves and doves, Harry," said Kate.

"I was thinking how very hot it must have been to-day.