His face, as he stood on the steps, was on a level with the Squire's.

"I am going to take the house, of course," he said, calmly.
"It will be a blow to Mrs.Edwards and the boy." "It will be the best thing that could happen to him," said the doctor, with the same clear evenness.

"That sick woman and boy are not fit to have the care of a place.

I shall own it, and rent it to them." Heat in controversy is sometimes needful to convince one's self as well as one's adversary.

Doctor Prescott needed no increase of warmth to further his own arguments, so conclusive they were to his own mind.
"For how much, if I may ask?
I am interested for certain reasons." "Seventy dollars.