"But it's not of Peter I'm thinking, one way or the other.
From the time he went first to school, she's had to depend entirely on her own resources--and what are they ?" He paused, as though to gather strength and energy for his indictment.
"From the time she was brought here--except for that one outing and a change to Torquay, I believe, after Peter's birth--she has scarce set foot outside Barracombe.

Sir Timothy would not, so he was resolved she should not.

His sisters, who have as much cultivation as that stone figure, disapproved of novel-reading--or of any other reading, I should fancy--and he followed suit.

Books are almost unknown in this house.

The library bookcases were locked.