"When Verner's Pride falls in, then marry whoever is its master." "Lionel will be its master for certain, will he not ?" she answered, startled out of the words.
"We don't know who will be its master," was Dr.West's rejoinder.

"Don't play the simpleton, I say, Sibylla, by entangling yourself with your cousin Fred." Dr.West was one who possessed an eye to the main chance; and, had Lionel Verner been, beyond contingency, "certain" of Verner's Pride, there is little doubt but he would have brought him to book at once, by demanding his intentions with regard to Sibylla.

There were very few persons in Deerham but deemed Lionel as indisputably certain of Verner's Pride as though he were already in possession of it.

Dr.West was probably an unusually cautious man.
"It is singular," observed Lionel, looking at the moth.

"The day has been sunshiny, but far too cold to call these moths into life.