Beaucock will go with me, and we shall get the best advice as soon as we possibly can.

Beaucock is a thorough lawyer--nothing the matter with him but a fiery palate.
I knew him as the stay and refuge of Sherton in knots of law at one time." Winterborne's replies were of the vaguest.

The new possibility was almost unthinkable by him at the moment.

He was what was called at Hintock "a solid-going fellow;" he maintained his abeyant mood, not from want of reciprocity, but from a taciturn hesitancy, taught by life as he knew it.
"But," continued the timber-merchant, a temporary crease or two of anxiety supplementing those already established in his forehead by time and care, "Grace is not at all well.

Nothing constitutional, you know; but she has been in a low, nervous state ever since that night of fright.