It was all to be his own, and in the course of nature must be his own very soon.

There could not but be an interest for him in every cottage and every field.

But yet there was present to him all the time a schoolboy feeling that he was doing a task; and the occupation was not pleasant to him because it was a task.

The steward was with him as a kind of pedagogue, and continued to instruct him during the whole ride.

This man only paid so much a year, and the rent ought to be so much more; but there were circumstances.