The doctor has been talking to me about money for him.' 'But, Mr.Caldigate, he couldn't drink the shirts out there in the bush.
Here, where there is a pawn-broker at all the corners, they drink everything.' He had promised to stay two days at Pollington and was of course aware of the dangers among which he walked.

Maria had been by no means the first to welcome him.

All the other girls had presented themselves before her.

And when at last she did come forward she was very shy.

The eldest daughter had married her clergyman though he was still only a curate; and the second had been equally successful with Lieutenant Postlethwaite though the lieutenant had been obliged in consequence to leave the army and to earn his bread by becoming agent to a soap-making company.