If he were to say to you that he had been recommending my mother to do this or that, you would not take it amiss ?" "But Hugh is a peculiar man." "No man has a right to be peculiar.

Every man is bound to accept such usage as is customary in the world." "I don't suppose that it will signify much," said the rector.

"To have your cousin's doors barred against you, either here or in London, will not injure you." "Oh, no; it will not injure me; but I do not wish you to think that I have been unreasonable." The night went by and so did the next day, and still the letter did not get itself written.

On the third morning after the funeral he heard that Sir Hugh had gone away; but he, of course, did not go up to the house, remembering well that he had been warned by the master not to do so in the master's absence.

His mother, however, went to Lady Clavering, and some intercourse between the families was renewed.