She holds the imagination, that old woman, with her sharp tongue, and her haggard, beautiful eyes, and her dead sons.

To know Mrs.Hope and her daughter is something to be thankful for." "I quite agree.

The Hopes do much to leaven the lump.

But I expect you find it rather a lump." "Honestly, I don't.

I'm not being superior, please don't think so, or charitable, or pretending to find good in everything, but I do like the Priorsford people.