It was a little larger than a good-sized doll's house, and furnished with spindle-legged chairs and tables that had been polished to the last extremity of brightness.
"Perhaps you would be so good as to walk into my sitting-room for a few moments, sir," said this lady, opening her garden-gate.

"I shall be most happy to afford you any information about your friends." "You are very good," said Gilbert, following her into the prim little parlour.
He had recovered his self-possession in some degree by this time, telling himself that this desertion of Hazel Cottage involved no more than a change of residence.
"My name is Dodd," said the lady, motioning Mr.Fenton to a chair, "Miss Letitia Dodd.

I had the pleasure of seeing you very often during your visits next door.

I was not on visiting terms with Captain Sedgewick and Miss Nowell, although we bowed to each other out of doors.

I am only a tradesman's daughter--indeed my brother is now carrying on business as a butcher in Fairleigh--and of course I am quite aware of the difference in our positions.