He was as timid as a foal." "He is not now, Squire, and John has been as useful mentally to Leila.
She is learning to think." "Sorry for it, Mark, women ought not to think.

Now if my good Ann wouldn't think, I should be the happier." "My dear Squire," said Rivers, setting an affectionate hand on his arm, "my dear Mrs.Penhallow doesn't think, except about the every-day things of life.

Her politics and religion are sacred beliefs not to be rudely jostled by the disturbance of thinking.

If there is illness, debt or trouble, at the mills or in Westways, she becomes seraphic and intelligent enough." "Yes, Rivers, and if I put before her, as I sometimes do, a perplexing business matter, I am surprised at her competence.

Of course, she is as able as you or I to reason, but on one subject she does not reason or believe that it admits of discussion; and by Heaven! my friend, I am sometimes ashamed to keep out of this business.