But he had done so in the expectation that he should never again see the squire in this world.

He, too, had been assured that the man would die, and had felt that it would be better that the management of things should then be in honest hands, such as his own, and in the hands of those who understood them, than be confided to those who did not not understand them, and who might probably not be honest.
But the squire had not died, and here he was again at Tretton as the squire's guest.

"I think," said Mr.Grey.

"that the less said about a good deal of it the better." "That, of course, is sweeping condemnation, which, however, I expect.
Let that be all as though it had been expressed.

You don't understand the inner man which rules me,--how it has struggled to free itself from conventionalities.