It was rather his misfortune.

And as for the rest, he was thoroughly a gentleman; was excellently well educated; and was, moreover, comely to look upon, and eminently agreeable in his bearing.

No; Joppa was far from begrudging Mr.
White his departure to the land of the blessed.

It was time the good old man went to his reward, they said.
And as to Mrs.Whittridge, Mr.Halloway's sister, who kept house for him at the rectory, through all the length and the breadth of Joppa there were no two opinions with regard to her.

She was a woman of about fifty, enough older than her brother to have been his mother, and she seemed indeed to cherish almost a mother's idolatrous affection for him.