He was much touched by her confidence in him, and swore a great oath, that the next year he would make the land such as it had never been before for produce.

It was not my lady's way to repeat anything she had heard, especially to another person's disadvantage.

So I don't think she ever told Captain James of Mr.Brooke's speech about a sailor's being likely to mismanage the property; and the captain was too anxious to succeed in this, the second year of his trial, to be above going to the flourishing, shrewd Mr.Brooke, and asking for his advice as to the best method of working the estate.

I dare say, if Miss Galindo had been as intimate as formerly at the Hall, we should all of us have heard of this new acquaintance of the agent's long before we did.

As it was, I am sure my lady never dreamed that the captain, who held opinions that were even more Church and King than her own, could ever have made friends with a Baptist baker from Birmingham, even to serve her ladyship's own interests in the most loyal manner.
We heard of it first from Mr.Gray, who came now often to see my lady, for neither he nor she could forget the solemn tie which the fact of his being the person to acquaint her with my lord's death had created between them.