It was all her aunt by marriage needed, and it left Olivia free to think her own thoughts.

She gave but few of them to her dead husband; the living claimed her attention.
Mr.Manley wore an air of gloom far deeper than his sense of the fitness of things would in the ordinary course of events have demanded.

It was the result of the nervously picturesque English which had flowed with such ease from the forceful pens of Mr.Douglas and Mr.Gregg.

Mr.
Carrington, who rode with him, and from attending the funerals of many clients had acquired as good a funeral air as any man in his profession, found his gloom exaggerated.

He was all the more scandalized, therefore, when, as they were nearing the Castle, Mr.Manley suddenly cried, "By Jove!" and rubbed his hands together with a face uncommonly radiant.
He had had the cheering thought that he had the Loudwater case, if ever it should come to a trial, wholly in his hands.