Her look and manner were even expostulatory; and in reply to these, rather than her words, he said,--"I could not help it, madam: I found it impossible to leave the country without seeing with my own eyes how she settled." "But you will unsettle her." "I hope not.

And how is papa's little Polly ?" This question he addressed to Paulina, as he sat down and placed her gently on the ground before him.
"How is Polly's papa ?" was the reply, as she leaned on his knee, and gazed up into his face.
It was not a noisy, not a wordy scene: for that I was thankful; but it was a scene of feeling too brimful, and which, because the cup did not foam up high or furiously overflow, only oppressed one the more.

On all occasions of vehement, unrestrained expansion, a sense of disdain or ridicule comes to the weary spectator's relief; whereas I have ever felt most burdensome that sort of sensibility which bends of its own will, a giant slave under the sway of good sense.
Mr.Home was a stern-featured--perhaps I should rather say, a hard-featured man: his forehead was knotty, and his cheekbones were marked and prominent.

The character of his face was quite Scotch; but there was feeling in his eye, and emotion in his now agitated countenance.

His northern accent in speaking harmonised with his physiognomy.