You understand him so much better: what do you suppose his motive is ?" "I make no pretence to understand him, dear, any more than his poor father could.

My dear brother was of headstrong order, and it did him no good to contradict him, and indeed it was dangerous to do so; but his nature was as simple as a child's almost, to any one accustomed to him.
If he had not married that grand French lady, who revelled in every extravagance, though she knew how we all were impoverished, he might have been living and in high position now, though a good many years my senior.

And the worst of it was that he did it at a time when he ought to have known so much better.

However, he paid for it bitterly enough, and his only child was set against him." "A very sad case altogether," said the rector.

"I remember, as if it were yesterday, how angry poor Montagu was with me.