"He is a very pleasing person, particularly kind-hearted and gentle, and likely to do a great deal for the parish.

They have been giving away beef and blankets at a great rate this Christmas." "What family is there ?" asked Flora.
"One daughter, about Ethel's age, is there with her governess.

He has been twice married, and the first wife left a son, who is in the Dragoons, I believe.

This girl's mother was Lord Cosham's daughter." So the talk lingered on, without much interest or life.

It was rather keeping from saying nothing than conversation, and no one was without the sensation that she was missing, round whom all had been free and joyous--not that she had been wont to speak much herself, but nothing would go on smoothly or easily without her.