And this made her think that the Darlings were always endeavoring to patronize her--a thing she would much rather die than put up with.
This excellent couple had allowed, however, their only son Erle, a very fine young man, to give his heart entirely to Faith Darling, the Admiral's eldest daughter, and to win hers to an equal extent; and instead of displaying any haughtiness, her father had simply said: "Let them wait two years; they are both very young, and may change their minds.

If they keep of the same mind for two years, they are welcome to one another." For a kinder-hearted man than Admiral Darling never saw the sun.
There was nothing about him wonderful in the way of genius, heroism, large-mindedness, or unselfishness.

But people liked him much better than if he combined all those vast rarities; because he was lively, genial, simple, easily moved to wrath or grief, free-handed, a little fond, perhaps, of quiet and confidential brag, and very fond of gossip.
"I tell you," he said to Lord Nelson now, as they walked down the hill to the church together that lovely Sunday morning, "you will not have seen a finer sight than our fishermen in church--I dare say never.
Of course they don't all go.

Nobody could expect it.

But as many as a reasonable man could desire come there, because they know I like it.
Twemlow thinks that they come to please him; but he finds a mighty difference in his congregation when I and my daughters are out of the parish.