Upon my proposing to read them, she went to the piano.

Conceive how little she must have known of serious people, if she supposed that my patience was to be exhausted in that way! I kept Miss Jane Ann Stamper by me, and waited for events with the most unfaltering trust in the future.
Old Mr.Ablewhite never made his appearance that night.

But I knew the importance which his worldly greed attached to his son's marriage with Miss Verinder--and I felt a positive conviction (do what Mr.Godfrey might to prevent it) that we should see him the next day.

With his interference in the matter, the storm on which I had counted would certainly come, and the salutary exhaustion of Rachel's resisting powers would as certainly follow.

I am not ignorant that old Mr.Ablewhite has the reputation generally (especially among his inferiors) of being a remarkably good-natured man.