"Hadn't the dear child allers been the biggest comfort to his grandmother, and why indeed wasn't he to cry as much as ever he liked?
He had nothing to reproach himself with, and if he had had his rights, he would have been made chief mourner.

Those that stood next the corpse had never been any comfort or pleasure to her, but that dear child had walked beside her to church ever since he had been old enough to go there himself." "And so those were Daniel and Augustus Mortimer's sons.

Very fine young gentlemen too, one of them not over young, neither; he looked at least thirty.

Well, very mysterious were the ways of Providence! Poor Cuthbert Melcombe, the eldest son, had left neither chick nor child; no more had poor Griffith, the youngest.

As for Peter, to be sure he had left children, but then he was gone himself.