With the Blagroves, for example, there was nothing to be done but just to watch the child's feeble life ebb away.

A miracle only could have saved her; but all the same it was impossible to go away and leave them.

They were young people, and had never seen death before.' I was surprised to hear him speak with so much feeling.

And I liked that expression 'servant of the poor.' It sounded to me as though he had at last grasped my meaning, and that I had nothing more to fear from his sarcasm.
I wondered what had wrought such a sudden change in him, for I had only worked such a few days.

Certainly it would make things far easier if I could secure him as an ally; and I began to hope that we should go on more smoothly in the future.
Mr.Hamilton was evidently a man whom it would take long to know.