There was nothing inspiring in them.

We became at once distinguished and respectable by patent." He laughed good-humouredly.

Then suddenly he changed, and his eyes took on a far-off look which Faith had seen so often in the eyes of David, but in David's more intense and meaning, and so different.

With what deftness and diplomacy had he worked upon her father! He had crossed a stream which seemed impassable by adroit, insincere diplomacy.
She saw that it was time to go, while yet Eglington's disparagement of rank and aristocracy was ringing in the old man's ears; though she knew there was nothing in Eglington's equipment he valued more than his title and the place it gave him.

Grateful, however, for his successful intervention, Faith now held out her hand.
"I must take my father away, or it will be sunset before we reach the Meeting-house," she said.