Somehow or other, I never feel fatigued when I've got somebody to talk to." "With such a disposition, I wonder, Forrester, you have not been more intimate with the young lady of the house.

Miss Lucy seems quite an intelligent girl, well-behaved, and virtuous." "Why, 'squire, she is all that; but, though modest and not proud, as you may see, yet she's a little above my mark.

She is book-learned, and I am not; and she paints, and is a musician too and has all the accomplishments.

She was an only child, and her father was quite another sort of person from his brother who now has her in management." "She is an orphan, then ?" "Yes, poor girl, and she feels pretty clearly that this isn't the sort of country in which she has a right to live.

I like her very well, but, as I say, she's a little above me; and, besides, you must know, 'squire, I'm rather fixed in another quarter." They had now reached the chamber of our hero, and the servant having placed the light and retired, the parties took seats, and the conversation recommenced.
"I know not how it is, Forrester," said the youth, "but there are few men whose looks I so little like, and whom I would more willingly avoid, than that man Rivers.