He gets all his meals out except breakfast, and she fixes that for him.

She told me he was hardly ever here unless he was eatin' or sleepin', so I don't reckon he'll bother us ?" "Well, I'm glad of that, because he isn't the kind of person I'd like the children to see anything of.

You can tell that he is quite common." "What does he look like?
Is he rough ?" "Oh, no, he is good looking enough--a fine animal.

I suppose he's handsome in a way, and he was dressed very carefully, but, of course, he isn't a gentleman." For the second time this stranger had made her feel that she had missed something in life, and she felt almost that she hated him.
"Oh, well, I don't reckon it will hurt us to pass him in the hall," replied Miss Polly soothingly, "as long as he don't bring in any diseases." The next day they settled comfortably in the upper rooms and, as far as sound or movement went, the floor below might have been tenanted by the dead.

When she went out Gabriella passed the dreadful hatrack of golden-oak in the lower hail; and after a day or two she noticed that it held a collection of soft felt hats, two overcoats of good cut and material, and an assortment of gold-headed walking-sticks, which appeared never to be used.