His keen relish of her dainties, combined with what seemed to her a very modest consumption of them, pleased Mistress Susan not a little; whilst for his own part Cuthbert began to look heartier and stronger than he had ever done before.

The slimness of attenuation was merged in that of wiry strength and muscle.

His dark eyes no longer looked out from hollow caverns, and the colour which gradually stole into his brown cheek bespoke increase of health and well being.
Martin and Susan looked on well pleased by the change.

They liked the lad, and found his Popery of such a mild kind that they felt no misgiving as to its influence upon the girls.

Cuthbert was as willing to go to a privately conducted Puritan service as to mass, and liked the appointed service of the Establishment rather better than either.