She set the simplest of meals; she managed in some way, without a word, to give the worried squire the assurance that all the folly and waste and hurryment were over for ever; and that his life was to fall back into a calm, regular, economical groove.
He drank his tea and smoked his pipe to this sense, and was happier than he had been for many a week.
"It is a middling good thing, Alice," he said, "that we have only one more daughter to marry.

I should think a matter of three or four would ruin or kill a man, let alone a mother.

Eh?
What ?" "That is the blessed truth, William.

And yet it is the pride of my heart to say that there never was such a bride or such a bridal in Sandal-Side before.

Still, I am tired, and I feel just as if I had had a trouble.
Come day, go day; at the long end, life is no better than the preacher called it--_vanity_." "To be sure it is not.