"There's been something the matter with them all down at Clavering since you came home, Julia; but hang me if I can find out what it is!" Still she was silent.

"It ain't Hermy; that I must say.

Hermy always speaks of you as though there had never been anything wrong." This assurance, we may say, must have been flattering to the lady whom he was about to court.
"Hermy was always too good to me," said Lady Ongar, smiling.
"By George, she always does.

If there's anything wrong it's been with Hugh; and, by George, I don't know what it is he was up to when you first came home.

It wasn't my doing--of course you know that." "I never thought that anything was your doing, Captain Clavering." "I think Hugh had been losing money; I do indeed.