I know something of all of them.

Character reading to me is at once a passion and a science.

Leave me alone with a man or a woman for five minutes, paint me a map of Life, and I will set the signposts along which that person will travel, and I shall not miss one." "You are doing no work over here, father, are you ?" Beatrice asked.
"None, my dear," he answered, with a faint note of regret in his tone.
"Your sister Elizabeth seemed scarcely to desire it.

Her movements are very uncertain and she likes to have me constantly at hand.

My daughter Elizabeth," he continued, turning to Tavernake, "is a very beautiful young woman, left in my charge under peculiar circumstances.