It wasn't like you, John." "No, it was not.

I wanted you, mother, a dozen times a day, and I was half-afraid to come back to you, lest I should find Miss Jane married or at least engaged." "She is neither one nor the other, or I am much mistaken.

Whatever are you afraid of?
Jane Harlow is only a woman beautiful and up to date, she is not a 'goddess excellently fair' like the woman you are always singing about, not she! I'm sure I often wonder where she got her beauty and high spirit.

Her father was just a proud hanger-on to his rich relations; he lived and died fighting his wants and his debts.

Her mother is very near as badly off--a poor, wuttering, little creature, always fearing and trembling for the day she never saw." "Perhaps this poverty and dependence may make her marry Lord Thirsk.