Once I understood that my cousin Richard Brithwood was left my guardian.

This my fa--this was to have been altered, I believe.

I wish it had been.

You know Norton Bury, Mr.Halifax ?" "I live there." "Indeed!"-- with some surprise.

"Then you are probably acquainted with my cousin and his wife ?" "No; but I have seen them." John gave these answers without lifting his eyes.
"Will you tell me candidly--for I know nothing of her, and it is rather important that I should learn--what sort of person is Lady Caroline ?" This frank question, put directly, and guarded by the battery of those innocent, girlish eyes, was a very hard question to be answered; for Norton Bury had said many ill-natured things of our young 'squire's wife, whom he married at Naples, from the house of the well-known Lady Hamilton.
"She was, you are aware, Lady Caroline Ravenel, the Earl of Luxmore's daughter." "Yes, yes; but that does not signify.