Many 's the night I've heard the windows rattling with the good company gathered round him.

Yes, he was a noble-looking man, a noble-looking man," he repeated wistfully, and with an evident sympathy for the lovers which, I need hardly say, won my heart.
"But how, I wonder, did they come to know each other ?" I interrupted, anxious to learn all I could, even if I had to ask stupid questions to learn it.
"Well, of course, no one can say how these things come about.

She was the lady of the manor and the patroness of his school; and then, as I say, he was a very noble-looking man, and probably took her fancy; and, sir, whenever some women set their hearts on a man there's no stopping them.

Have him they will, whatever happens.

They can't help it, poor things! It's just a freak of nature." "Well, and how was it found out ?" I again jogged him.
"One of Sir William's keepers played the spy on them.