Among the riders there is none whose safe return I watch for--I mean none more than other--and indeed there seems no risk, all are now so feared of us.

Neither of the old men is there whom I can revere or love (except alone my grandfather, whom I love with trembling): neither of the women any whom I like to deal with, unless it be a little maiden whom I saved from starving.
'A little Cornish girl she is, and shaped in western manner, not so very much less in width than if you take her lengthwise.

Her father seems to have been a miner, a Cornishman (as she declares) of more than average excellence, and better than any two men to be found in Devonshire, or any four in Somerset.

Very few things can have been beyond his power of performance, and yet he left his daughter to starve upon a peat-rick.
She does not know how this was done, and looks upon it as a mystery, the meaning of which will some day be clear, and redound to her father's honour.

His name was Simon Carfax, and he came as the captain of a gang from one of the Cornish stannaries.