"Mr.Finn will take you back in safety, I am sure," said he, "and, as I am here, I'll go up to the farm for a moment.

If I don't show myself now and again when I am here, they think I'm indifferent about the 'bestials'." "Now, Mr.Kennedy," said Lady Laura, "you are going to pretend to understand all about sheep and oxen." Mr.Kennedy, owning that it was so, went away to his farm, and Phineas with Lady Laura returned towards the house.

"I think, upon the whole," said Lady Laura, "that that is as good a man as I know." "I should think he is an idle one," said Phineas.
"I doubt that.

He is, perhaps, neither zealous nor active.

But he is thoughtful and high-principled, and has a method and a purpose in the use which he makes of his money.