The seasons came and went with peaceful regularity, unbroken by a jarring note from the outside world.

Mr.Anderton, being well assured by the Misses La Sarthe that his stepdaughter was receiving a splendid education, was only too glad to leave her in peace, and Mrs.Anderton felt her duty achieved when at the beginning of each summer and winter she sent a supply of what she considered suitable clothes.

It took Priscilla and Hester hours to alter them to Halcyone's slender shape.
Mr.Carlyon was seldom absent from his house during this period, only twice a year, when he spent a fortnight in London in June, and another week in November with his brother, a squire of some note in the Cornish world.

Halcyone made green his old age with the exquisite quality of her opening mind.

And deep down in her heart there always dwelt the image of John Derringham, and whatever new hero she read about, he unconsciously assumed some of his features or mien.