His brow contracted.
"Why on earth have they run away?
Did Mr.Burt's grandson suppose he would be unwelcome to me?
Has he been in the habit of coming here, Nancy ?" "No, not much." "Have you seen them since this thing ?" "No, indeed," replied the mother, bursting into tears afresh.
Her husband looked at her darkly.
"Don't blubber.

What good does crying do?
G--! if any thing happens in this world, a woman falls to crying her eyes out, as if that would help it." Boniface Newt was not usually affectionate.

But there was almost a ferocity in his address at this moment which startled his wife into silence.

His daughter May turned pale as she saw and heard her father.
"I thought Abel was trial enough!" said he, bitterly; "and now the girl must fall to cutting up shines.

I tell you plainly, Nancy, if Fanny has married a beggar, a beggar she shall be.