"He never has no patience with ghosts." "Serve you right," was the half-audible comment of Mr.Verner.

"Is this all you know of the affair ?" he continued, after a pause.
"It's all, sir," she sobbed.

"And enough too.

There's only one thing as I shall be for ever thankful for." "What's that ?" asked Mr.Verner.
"That my poor Luke was away afore this happened.

He was fond of hankering after Rachel, and folks might have been for laying it on his shoulders; though, goodness knows, he'd not have hurt a hair of her head." "At any rate, he is out of it," observed John Massingbird.
"Ay," she replied, in a sort of self-soliloquy, as she turned to leave the room, for Mr.Verner told her she was dismissed, "it'll be a corn o' comfort amid my peck o' troubles.