How peaceful was the large, worn face! How tranquil! How distant from them! How grandly, how terribly indifferent! To Squire William Sandal, all the noisy, sorrowful controversies of earth had grown suddenly silent.
The reading of the squire's will made public the real condition of affairs.

Julius had spoken with the lawyer previously, and made clear to him his right in equity to stand in the heir's place.

But the squires and statesmen of the Dales heard the substitution with muttered dissents, or in a silence still more emphatic of disapproval.

Ducie and Mrs.Sandal and Charlotte were shocked and astounded at the revelation, and there was not a family in Sandal-Side who had that night a good word for Julius Sandal.

He thought it very hard, and said so.