The boards have been put since I came to look over everything last autumn.

I did instruct the agent, Martin, in Applewood to offer a large price for it, but he assured me it would be quite useless; it belongs, it appears, to the most ridiculous old ladies, who are almost starving, but would rather die than be sensible." Suddenly John Derringham was conscious that his sympathies had shifted to the Misses La Sarthe, and he could not imagine why.
"You told me, I think," she went on, "that you knew this neighborhood.
Do you happen to be aware of any bait I could hold out to them ?" "No, I do not," he said.

"That sort of pride is foolish, if you like; but there it is--part of an inheritance of the spirit which in the past has made England great.

They are wonderful old ladies.

I dined with them once long ago." "I must really go over and see them one day.