Had we not dismissed him already, we could hardly have found it in our hearts to dismiss him now.

So I say, be thankful.

I'll do all I can for him as a friend; but as a pretender to the position of my son-in law, that can never be thought of more." And yet at that very moment the impracticability to which poor Winterborne's suit had been reduced was touching Grace's heart to a warmer sentiment on his behalf than she had felt for years concerning him.
He, meanwhile, was sitting down alone in the old familiar house which had ceased to be his, taking a calm if somewhat dismal survey of affairs.

The pendulum of the clock bumped every now and then against one side of the case in which it swung, as the muffled drum to his worldly march.

Looking out of the window he could perceive that a paralysis had come over Creedle's occupation of manuring the garden, owing, obviously, to a conviction that they might not be living there long enough to profit by next season's crop.
He looked at the leases again and the letter attached.