In bed, I'll answer for it.' Mamma asked him for franks, that she might send his speech to a lady [This lady was Mrs.Hannah More.] who, though of high Tory principles, is very fond of Tom, and has left him in her will her valuable library.
'Oh, no,' he said, 'don't send it.

If you do, she'll cut me off with a prayer-book.' "Tom is very much improved in his appearance during the last two or three years.

His figure is not so bad for a man of thirty as for a man of twenty-two.

He dresses better, and his manners, from seeing a great deal of society, are very much improved.

When silent and occupied in thought, walking up and down the room as he always does, his hands clenched and muscles working with the intense exertion of his mind, strangers would think his countenance stern; but I remember a writing-master of ours, when Tom had come into the room and left it again, saying, 'Ladies, your brother looks like a lump of good-humour!' "March 30, 1831--Tom has just left me, after a very interesting conversation.