As it was, he was very much pleased, and when the doctor came out with him into the hall, he could not help expressing his satisfaction in Richard's well-judged and sensibly-described project.
"Ay, ay!" said the doctor, "there's much more in the boy than I used to think.

He's a capital fellow, and more like his mother than any of them." "He is," said Mr.Wilmot; "there was a just, well-weighed sense and soberness in his plans that put me in mind of her every moment." Dr.May gave his hand a squeeze, full of feeling, and went up to tell Margaret.

She, on the first opportunity, told Richard, and made him happier than he had been for months, not so much in Mr.Wilmot's words, as in his father's assent to, and pleasure in them..