Man does not live by bread alone.

Do you think he lives by gold?
Only be patient; and when you are worthy of it, you shall find it again, in the Lord's good time." To the doctor this seemed a mere burst of jargon, invented for the purpose of hiding guilt; and his faith in womankind was not heightened when he heard Grace's mother say, _sotto voce_ to Willis, that--"In wrecks, and fires, and such like, a many people complained of having lost more than ever they had." "Oh ho! my old lady, is that the way the fox is gone ?" quoth Tom to that trusty counsellor, himself; and began carefully scrutinising Mrs.
Harvey's face.

It had been very handsome: it was still very clever: but the eyebrows, crushed together downwards above her nose, and rising high at the outer corners, indicated, as surely as the restless down-dropt eye, a character self-conscious, furtive, capable of great inconsistencies, possibly of great deceits.
"You don't look me in the face, old lady!" quoth Tom to himself.

"Very well! between you two it lies; unless that old gentleman implicates himself also, in his approaching confession." He took his part at once.

"Well, well, you will oblige me by saying nothing more about it.