But this he did more, perhaps, in theory than in practice; yet it made all the ladies declare to one another that he was a perfect gentleman.

And so he was, though he had his faults; but his faults were such as we approve of.
But Mrs.Hockin had no fault in any way worth speaking of.

And whatever she had was her husband's doing, through her desire to keep up with him.
She was pretty, even now in her sixtieth year, and a great deal prettier because she never tried to look younger.

Silver hair, and gentle eyes, and a forehead in which all the cares of eight children had scarcely imprinted a wrinkle, also a kind expression of interest in whatever was spoken of, with a quiet voice and smile, and a power of not saying too much at a time, combined to make this lady pleasant.
Without any fuss or declaration, she took me immediately under her care; and I doubt not that, after two years passed in the society of Suan Isco and the gentle Sawyer, she found many things in me to amend, which she did by example and without reproof.

She shielded me also in the cleverest way from the curiosity of the saloon, which at first was very trying.