But she, sweet maid, took it so to heart, that she never held up her head since; nor will, I think, at times, to her dying day." "Humph! Was she fond of the other lad, then ?" "Sir," said Willis, "I don't think it's fair like,--not decent, if you'll excuse an old sailor,--to talk about young maids' affairs, that they wouldn't talk of themselves, perhaps not even to themselves.

So I never asked any questions myself." "And think it rude in me to ask any.

Well, I believe you're right, good old gentleman that you are.

What a nobleman you'd have made, if you had had the luck to have been born in that station of life!" "I have found too much trouble, in doing my duty in my humble place, to wish to be in any higher one." "So!" thought Tom to himself, "a girl's fancy: but it explains so much in the character, especially when the temperament is melancholic.
However, to quote Solomon once more, 'A live dog is better than a dead lion;' and I have not much to fear from a rival who has been washed out of this world ten years since.

Heyday! Rival! quotha?
Tom Thurnall, you are going to make a fool of yourself.