He was transported beyond the seas once; and no one casts it up to him now, nor to us; and haven't we got friends?
Cheer up, Bess.

Miss Anne says, maybe this very trouble will bring thy father to repentance.

He said he'd repent some time; and maybe this will be the very time for him.

And Miss Anne sends her kind love to thee and thy mother, and she'll come and see thy mother as soon as she can leave the master.' Thus comforted, poor sorrowful Bess rose from the ground, and walked on with them to Botfield.

Most of the house doors were open, and the women were standing at them in order to waylay them with inquisitive questions; but Stephen's grave and steady face, and the presence of Bess, who walked close beside him, as if there was shelter and protection there, kept them silent; and they were compelled to satisfy their curiosity with secondhand reports.