"Woodston will make but a sombre appearance today." "Is it a pretty place ?" asked Catherine.
"What say you, Eleanor?
Speak your opinion, for ladies can best tell the taste of ladies in regard to places as well as men.

I think it would be acknowledged by the most impartial eye to have many recommendations.

The house stands among fine meadows facing the south-east, with an excellent kitchen-garden in the same aspect; the walls surrounding which I built and stocked myself about ten years ago, for the benefit of my son.

It is a family living, Miss Morland; and the property in the place being chiefly my own, you may believe I take care that it shall not be a bad one.

Did Henry's income depend solely on this living, he would not be ill-provided for.