But he told cook that it was quite a mercy that you got off without a broken leg; and compared with that, two gallons of spilled ale--" Mrs.Hockin made off, without finishing her sentence.
"What a woman she is!" cried the Major; "she takes such a lofty view of things, and she can always find my tools.

Erema, after dinner I must have a talk with you.

There is something going on here--on my manor--which I can not at all get a clew to, except by connecting you with it, the Lord knows how.

Of course you have nothing to do with it; but still my life has been so free from mystery that, that--you know what I mean--" "That you naturally think I must be at the bottom of every thing mysterious.

Now is there any thing dark about me?
Do I not labor to get at the light?
Have I kept from your knowledge any single thing?
But you never cared to go into them." "It is hardly fair of you to say that.