He may have a brother, or some other relation, who wants to take one of your father's farms.

Indeed, there are a hundred things he might want to see him about.

But still, I am glad you have told me." In his own mind, Charlie thought much more seriously of it than he pretended.

He knew that, at present, his father was engaged heart and soul in a projected Jacobite rising.

He knew that John Dormay was a bitter Whig.