It was as much as I could do to persuade Guy and Edwin to go to bed, instead of watching that "beautiful blaze." There, more than once, I saw the mother standing, with a shawl over her head, and her white gown blowing, trying to reason into patience those poor fellows, savage with their wrongs.
"How far have they been wronged, Phineas?
What is the strict law of the case?
Will any harm come to John for interfering ?" I told her, no, so far as I knew.

That the cruelty and illegality lay in the haste of the distraint, and in the goods having been carried off at once, giving no opportunity of redeeming them.

It was easy to grind the faces of the poor, who had no helper.
"Never mind; my husband will see them righted--at all risks." "But Lord Luxmore is his landlord." She looked troubled.

"I see what you mean.

It is easy to make an enemy.