A few questions convinced me it was her regular employment, especially when her father was busy.

I could not help asking her if she had ever read "The Lady of the Lake," but found that neither that romance nor any other had ever invested her river experience with any sensibility except of a cheerful duty.

She was going to do the whole for a penny, her usual charge, but I declined to take back any change for the piece of silver I gave to her, intimating that I regarded it cheap at that to be rowed over a river by such hands.
Almost opposite to Abbotsford I passed one of the best farming establishments I had seen in Scotland.

I was particularly struck with a feature which will hereafter distinguish the steddings or farm buildings in Great Britain.

Steam has already accomplished many changes, and among others one that could hardly have been anticipated when it was first applied to common uses.