She was very pale, as she bent over him, and I thought her finger trembled as she pointed out the cards; but the Doctor was quite happy in her attention, and took no notice of this, if it were so.
At supper, we were hardly so gay.

Everyone appeared to feel that a parting of that sort was an awkward thing, and that the nearer it approached, the more awkward it was.

Mr.Jack Maldon tried to be very talkative, but was not at his ease, and made matters worse.

And they were not improved, as it appeared to me, by the Old Soldier: who continually recalled passages of Mr.Jack Maldon's youth.
The Doctor, however, who felt, I am sure, that he was making everybody happy, was well pleased, and had no suspicion but that we were all at the utmost height of enjoyment.
'Annie, my dear,' said he, looking at his watch, and filling his glass, 'it is past your cousin jack's time, and we must not detain him, since time and tide--both concerned in this case--wait for no man.

Mr.Jack Maldon, you have a long voyage, and a strange country, before you; but many men have had both, and many men will have both, to the end of time.
The winds you are going to tempt, have wafted thousands upon thousands to fortune, and brought thousands upon thousands happily back.' 'It's an affecting thing,' said Mrs.Markleham--'however it's viewed, it's affecting, to see a fine young man one has known from an infant, going away to the other end of the world, leaving all he knows behind, and not knowing what's before him.