I shall not go--I told her so." "But gently, I hope ?--you are so very outspoken, love.

You made her clearly understand that it is not from incivility we decline her invitations ?--Well--never mind! Some day we will take our place, and so shall our children, with any gentry in the land." I think--though John rarely betrayed it--he had strongly this presentiment of future power, which may often be noticed in men who have carved out their own fortunes.

They have in them the instinct to rise; and as surely as water regains its own level, so do they, from however low a source, ascend to theirs.
Not many weeks after, we removed in a body to Enderley.

Though the chief reason was, that John might be constantly on the spot, superintending his mills, yet I fancied I could detect a secondary reason, which he would not own even to himself; but which peered out unconsciously in his anxious looks.

I saw it when he tried to rouse Muriel into energy, by telling her how much she would enjoy Enderley Hill; how sweet the primroses grew in the beechwood, and how wild and fresh the wind swept over the common, morning and night.