Then he bolted the door, with only our own people and the doctor and the constable inside.

Your mother was sleeping like a lamb, as I could swear, having had a very tiring day the day before, and being well away from the noise of the passage, as well as at a time when they must sleep whenever sleep will come, miss.

Bless her gentle heart, what a blessing to be out of all that scare of it! "All this time, you must understand, there was no sign yet what had happened to his lordship, over and above his being dead.

All of us thought, if our minds made bold to think, that it must have pleased the Lord to take his lordship either with an appleplexy or a sudden heart-stroke, or, at any rate, some other gracious way not having any flow of blood in it.

But now, while your father was gone up stairs--for he knew that his father was dead enough--to be sure that your mother was quiet, and perhaps to smooth her down for trouble, and while I was run away to stop the ranting of the children, old Dr.Diggory and that rural officer were handling poor Lord Castlewood.