But he does not confine his studies to medicine, it seems.

He investigates theology and metaphysics and all sorts of subjects." "What is his name ?" "Fitzpiers.

He represents a very old family, I believe, the Fitzpierses of Buckbury-Fitzpiers--not a great many miles from here." "I am not sufficiently local to know the history of the family.

I was never in the county till my husband brought me here." Mrs.Charmond did not care to pursue this line of investigation.

Whatever mysterious merit might attach to family antiquity, it was one which, though she herself could claim it, her adaptable, wandering weltburgerliche nature had grown tired of caring about--a peculiarity that made her a contrast to her neighbors.