Among the farmers one pound nine and eightpence had been collected.

Mr.Saul had given two pounds; Mrs.Clavering gave five pounds; the girls gave ten shillings each; Henry Clavering gave five pounds--and then the parson made up the remainder.

But Mr.Saul had journeyed thrice painfully to Bristol, making the bargain for the church, going and coming each time by third-class, and he had written all the letters; but Mrs.Clavering had paid the postage, and she and the girls between them were making the covering for the little altar.
"Is it all settled, Harry ?" said Fanny, stopping with her brother, and hanging over his chair.

She was a pretty, gay-spirited girl, with bright eyes and dark brown hair, which fell in two curls behind her ears.
"He has said nothing to unsettle it." "I know it makes him very unhappy." "No, Fanny, not very unhappy.

He would rather that I should go into the church, but that is about all." "I think you are quite right." "And Mary thinks I am quite wrong." "Mary thinks so, of course.