If then, she was glad to be set free from it, the feeling was too natural to be severely blamed; for she never said so,--no, not even by a look.

Her children had the benefit of their grandmother's kindness, and she was too honorable to deprive the dead of their meed of gratitude.
The present holder of Sandal had none of his mother's ambitious will.

He cared for neither political nor fashionable life; and as soon as he came to his inheritance, married a handsome, sensible daleswoman with whom he had long been in love.

Then he retired from a world which had nothing to give him comparable, in his eyes, with the simple, dignified pleasures incident to his position as Squire of Sandal-Side.

For dearly he loved the old hall, with its sheltering sycamores and oaks,--oaks which had been young trees when the knights lying in Furness Abbey led the Grasmere bowmen at Crecy and Agincourt.