At forty we have learned to accept the inevitable, and to feel many things possible which we once declared would break our hearts in two.
There was an air of great depression also at Up-Hill.

Ducie was full of apprehension.

She said to Charlotte, "When men as old as father fall, they stumble at their own grave; and I can't think what I'll do without father." "You have Steve." "Steve is going away.

He would have left this morning, but for this fresh trouble.

I see you are startled, Charlotte." "I am that.