More than that, I've been thinking of brother Tom's boy for one of them.

Eh?
What ?" "You mean, you have been writing to Tom about a marriage?
I would have been above a thing like that, William.

I suppose you did it to please your mother.

She always did hanker after Tom, and she always did dislike the Latriggs.

I have heard that when people were in the grave they 'ceased from troubling,' but"-- "Alice!" "I meant no harm, squire, I'm sure; and I would not say wrong of the dead for any thing, specially of your mother; but I think about my own girls." "There, now, Alice, don't whimper and cry.