But I wish sometimes I could be of use, Mrs.Mellot: but what can a fellow do ?" "I thought there was an Irish tenantry to be looked after, my lord, and a Cornish tenantry too." "That's what Campbell is always saying: but what more can I do than I do?
As for those poor Paddies, I never ask them for rent; if I did, I should not get it; so there is no generosity in that.

And as for the Aberalva people, they have got on very well without me for twenty years; and I don't know them, nor what they want; nor even if they do want anything, except fish enough, and I can't put more fish into the sea, Mrs.Mellot ?" "Try and be a good soldier, then," said she, laughing.

"Why should not Lord Scoutbush emulate his illustrious countryman, conquer at a second Waterloo, and die a duke ?" "I'm not cut out for a general, I am afraid; but if--I don't say if I could marry that woman--I suppose it would be a foolish thing--though I shall break my heart, I believe, if I do not.

Oh, Mrs.Mellot, you cannot tell what a fool I have made myself about her; and I cannot help it! It's not her beauty merely; but there is something so noble in her face, like one of those Greek goddesses Claude talks of; and when she is acting, if she has to say anything grand, or generous--or--you know the sort of thing,--she brings it out with such a voice, and such a look, from the very bottom of her heart,--it makes me shudder; just as she did when she told that Yankee, that every one could be a hero, or a martyr, if he chose.

Mrs.Mellot, I am sure she is one, or she could not look and speak as she does." "She is one!" said Sabina; "a heroine, and a martyr too." "If I could,--that was what I was going to say,--if I could but win that woman's respect--as I live, I ask no more; only to be sure she didn't despise me.