In the meantime, mark me, the girl is dead.

I have accomplished that gratifying event, so that, after all, your visit will be a mere matter of form.

When you reach their house you will probably find it the house of death." "And then," replied his mother, "the twelve hundred a year is yours for life, and the property of your children after you.

Thank God!" That morning at breakfast she expressed her determination to visit the Goodwins, making it, she said, a visit from the family in general; such a visit, she added, as might be proper on their (the Lindsays) part, but yet such an act of neighborhood that, while it manifested sufficient respect for them, would preclude all hopes of any future intercourse between them.
Mr.Lindsay did not relish this much; but as he had no particular wish, in consequence of Charles's illness, to oppose her motives in making the visit, he said she might manage it as she wished--he would not raise a fresh breeze about it.

He only felt that he was sincerely, sorry for the loss which the Goodwins were about to experience..