As to Mr Deep, nobody quite knew what he did, he was so very reserved and quiet.
Owen stayed on at Abertewey day after day, he scarcely knew why.

In the first place, he was very well amused, and liked his quarters.

In the second, his new friends all liked him; the women for his good looks and open-hearted civility, the men, because he took his own course and did not interfere with them, and was a very amusing fellow besides.

In the third place, he stayed on because he felt anxious about Howel and Netta and their way of beginning life.

He had been a man careless of money himself all his days, but he had been, as the saying goes, no one's enemy but his own--he feared that Howel might turn out, not only his own foe but the foe of others, since he perceived that the propensities of his unmonied youth were strengthening and maturing in his monied manhood.