He had made up his mind he was going to do so well, and to cut such a figure in the world; but he would have come round.

Lord bless you, he only meant to hold out for a bit.

When he was ill at Athens, he was talking all the time about forgiving his son, and I could see how hard it had been to him to keep separated from him.

On the voyage home he fidgeted ever so at the delay, and I knew that the first thing he did, when he got back, would be to write to Master Herbert and tell him to bring his wife down to the Hall.

There's not a hard corner in the squire's heart.
"I thank the good God for the news you have told me, ma'am; it's the best I ever heard in all my life." Mrs.Walsham now told him how the child had been brought up, and then the sergeant himself, who was waiting in the next room, was brought in; and to him John Petersham related the story of the squire's illness, the reason of the letters not reaching him for months after they had been written, and his intense sorrow and self reproach at having arrived too late, and told him of the efforts that had been made to find the child.