What are the principal complaints in these parts ?" "Eh, sir ?" "I mean what maladies, what diseases ?" "I never heard tell of any, sir, except the rheumatism." "No low fevers, no consumption ?" "Never heard of them, sir." Riccabocca drew a long breath, as if relieved.

"That seems a very kind family at the Hall." "I have nothing to say against it," answered Lenny, bluntly.

"I have not been treated justly.

But as that book says, sir, 'It is not every one who comes into the world with a silver spoon in his mouth.'" Little thought the doctor that those wise maxims may leave sore thoughts behind them! He was too occupied with the subject most at his own heart to think then of what was in Lenny Fairfield's.
"Yes; a kind, English domestic family.

Did you see much of Miss Hazeldean ?" "Not so much as of the Lady." "Is she liked in the village, think you ?" "Miss Jemima?
Yes.