These gone, Madam fell naturally upon Mrs.Mountain and her little daughter, and worried and annoyed them.

But women bear with hard words more easily than men, are more ready to forgive injuries, or, perhaps, to dissemble anger.

Let us trust that Madam Esmond's dependants found their life tolerable, that they gave her ladyship sometimes as good as they got, that if they quarrelled in the morning they were reconciled at night, and sate down to a tolerably friendly game at cards and an amicable dish of tea.
But, without the boys, the great house of Castlewood was dreary to the widow.

She left an overseer there to manage her estates, and only paid the place an occasional visit.

She enlarged and beautified her house in the pretty little city of Richmond, which began to grow daily in importance.