You will find a parcel in the cab at the door." "Her Ladyship is always kind and good, the Lord reward her! I think I'll be gettin' down to see her and the Abbey and Maureen before the winter comes.

And now, Miss Bawn, you'll be seein' the house ?" I felt that it would be the greatest unkindness to refuse her, so we made the journey of all the forty-two rooms, and in every one Bridget had stories to tell, and she pointed to the pictures and the bric-a-brac and the tapestries, and classified the furniture, like any guide-book.
I was not as excited about them as otherwise I might have been.

Indeed, I could think of nothing but that Anthony Cardew was beside me, and that he had clasped me in his arms and kissed me and that there was no gentleman on earth his equal.
I knew now how foolish it was about Theobald, and how impossible it was that our brotherly and sisterly intimacy could ever have ripened into love.

Indeed, I felt years older than Theobald, and I said to myself that never in any circumstances could I have cared for a boy like him.
As we went from room to room my heart felt as though it were on wings.
To see Captain Cardew, how polite and kind he was to old Bridget, opening and closing the shutters for her and helping her up and down steps, filled me with pride and joy.

Was it possible that he could care for a little ignorant girl like me, this _preux chevalier_, who had been secretly a hero of romance to me as long as I remembered?
All the time as we went Bridget talked incessantly, although she became scanter and scanter of breath.