I liked to fancy that, even though she would have to go from me to the squire, my little plan may yet turn out, and it would be I, not he, who had arranged for the future happiness of my little darling.

I shouldn't have told you all this, ma'am; but you would have it." "I am glad you brought her to me, Sergeant Wilks, anyhow," Mrs.Walsham said, "for I love her dearly, and she has been a great pleasure to me; but what you are talking about is simply nonsense.

My son is a good boy, and will, I hope, grow up an honourable gentleman like his father; but he cannot look so high as the granddaughter of Squire Linthorne." "More unequal marriages have been made than that, ma'am," the sergeant said sturdily; "but we won't say more about it.

I have thought it over and over, many a hundred times, as I wheeled my box across the hills, and it don't seem to me impossible.

I will agree that the squire would never say yes; but the squire may be in his grave years before Aggie comes to think about marriage.