You can give me another room, I suppose.

It would be better for his lordship not to be disturbed, as he is very much out of health.' 'There is another room, my lady, but it's very small.' 'I don't mind how small, if it is clean and airy.' 'Yes, my lady.

I am thankful to say you won't find dirt or stuffiness anywhere in this house.

His lordship do look mortal badly,' added the landlady, shaking her head dolefully; 'and I remember him such a fine young gentleman, when he used to come down the Rothay with the otter hounds, running along the bank--joomping in and out of the beck--up to his knees in the water--and now to see him, so white and mashiated, and broken-down like, in the very prime of life, all along of living out in a hot country, among blackamoors, which is used to it--poor, ignorant creatures--and never knew no better.

It must be a hard trial for you, my lady.' 'It is a hard trial.' 'Ah! we all have our trials, rich and poor,' sighed the woman, who desired nothing better than to be allowed to unbosom her woes to the grand looking lady in the fur-bordered cloth pelisse, with beautiful dark hair piled up in clustering masses above a broad white forehead, and slender white hands on which diamonds flashed and glittered in the firelight, an unaccustomed figure by that rustic hearth.
'We all have our trials--high and low.' 'That reminds me,' said Lady Maulevrier, looking up at her, 'your husband said you were in trouble.