Hugh says that he drinks next to nothing now, and though he sometimes lights a cigar in the smoking room at night, he hardly ever smokes it.

You must do what you can to keep him from tobacco.

I happen to know that Sir Charles Poddy said that so many cigars were worse for him even than brandy." All this Julia bore with an even temper.

She was determined to bear everything till her time should come.

Indeed she had made herself understand that the hearing of such things as these was a part of the price which she was to be called upon to pay.