"I want to know about the people here.
What sort of a man is Oily Dave?
He looks a veritable old rascal." "And for once appearances are not deceptive," replied Jervis.
"Since I have been here he has tried to quietly do for me about once a week upon an average.

He so nearly succeeded the first time that it has encouraged him to persevere," "How truly horrid!" she cried with a shiver.

"But there are nicer people to compensate for him, I hope.

Who is that delightfully hospitable woman who lives in the house on the bluff, with a boatlike projection at one end ?" "That is Mrs.Jenkin, my landlady, and the boat-like projection is my abode.

It is very comfortable, too," he answered.
"Then who is the very pretty girl who moves with as much grace as if she had been brought up in drawing-rooms all her life, yet has to carry heavy burdens over a portage like a man ?" asked Mary eagerly, her other questions having been intended only to lead up to this.
Jervis Ferrars stood up with a quick movement, and a feeling that the questioning had become suddenly intolerable; but his voice was quiet and steady as he answered: "That would be Miss Radford, whose father has the store over the river.