"A little old fashioned, perhaps, but so kind and deferential.

He seemed to understand my feelings exactly." That evening when they were at tea Mrs.Sankey mentioned the agreeable visitor who had called in the afternoon.
"What! William Mulready!" Ned exclaimed; "Foxey, as his hands call him.
I have heard Bill speak of him often.

His men hate him.

They say he is a regular tyrant.

What impudence his coming here!" "Ned, I am surprised at you," his mother said angrily.