In fact, I believe she told her mother, though she kept it from her father for fear he would break the law.

At any rate, it is a good thing he has gone; for he was a hard landlord, and there was not a good word for him among his tenants." "That makes the probability of a mistake all the more likely," Frank said.

"If I, who as a landlord, as far as I know, have given no grounds for dislike to my tenants, was suspected unjustly; this would be still more likely to be the case with one who was generally unpopular.
"And now, how has the farm been going on since I was away ?" "Just about as usual, Squire.

Bob is not such a good judge of horses and cattle as George was, but in other respects I think he knows more.

George did not care for reading, and Bob is always at the papers and getting up the last things these scientific chaps have found out; so matters are pretty well squared.