Not that they are bad mistresses; but they look about all right, I can tell you, pretty sharp.

I don't say that it ain't as well as they do, for the master never seems to care one way or the other, and lets things go anyhow.

A nice gentleman he is, but I don't see much of him; and he don't drive in the carriage not once a month, and only then when he is going to the board of magistrates.

He just walks about the garden morning and evening, and all the rest of the time he is shut up in the library with his books.
It's a pity he don't go out more." "Are there any families about with boys ?" Ralph asked.
"Not as I knows of.

None of then that ever comes to the Hall, anyhow.
It's a pity there ain't some young ones there; it would wake the place up and make it lively.