Any thing Steve said last night could have been spelled with four letters." "Four letters ?" "To be sure.

L-o-v-e." "You used to like Stephen." "I like all bright, honest, good lads; but when they want to make love to Miss Charlotte Sandal, they think one thing, and I think another.
There has been ill-luck with love-making between the Sandals and the Latriggs.

My brothers Launcie and Tom quarrelled about one of Barf Latrigg's daughters, and mother lost them both through her.

There is no love-line between the two houses, or if there is nothing can make it run straight.

Don't you try to, Charlotte; neither the dead nor the living will like it or have it." He intended then to tell her about Julius Sandal, but a look at her face checked him.