On such occasions he would commence the negotiation with his usual diplomacy, not knowing any other mode of expressing his wishes; but he was aware that his brother would always detect his manoeuvres, and expose them before he had got through his first preface: and, therefore, as I have said, he was afraid of Hugh.
"I don't know what's come to my uncle of late," said Hugh, after a while.

"I think I shall have to drop them at the rectory altogether." "He never had much to say for himself." "But he has a mode of expressing himself without speaking, which I do not choose to put up with at my table.

The fact is they are going to the mischief at the rectory.

His eldest girl has just married a curate." "Fielding has got a living." "It's something very small then, and I suppose Fanny will marry that prig they have here.

My uncle himself never does any of his own work, and now Harry is going to make a fool of himself.