In spite of the grandfather's encomium of the late lord, the boys had no very great respect for their kinsman's memory.

The lads and their mother were staunch Jacobites, though having every respect for his present Majesty; but right was right, and nothing could make their hearts swerve from their allegiance to the descendants of the martyr Charles.
With a beating heart Harry Warrington walked from the inn towards the house where his grandsire's youth had been passed.

The little village-green of Castlewood slopes down towards the river, which is spanned by an old bridge of a single broad arch, and from this the ground rises gradually towards the house, grey with many gables and buttresses, and backed by a darkling wood.

An old man sate at the wicket on a stone bench in front of the great arched entrance to the house, over which the earl's hatchment was hanging.

An old dog was crouched at the man's feet.