"Then I wouldn't think of taking a wife."
"Troubles have been too heavy for me to bear. I don't think I was intended to bear trouble."
"'Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward,'" said Matthew.
"I suppose so. But one man's luck is harder than another's. They've been too many for me, and I feel that I'm sinking under them. It's no good my thinking of marrying now."
"That's what I was coming to when you said I was an old fool. Of course I am an old fool."
"Do have done with it! Mr. Harry hasn't been exactly what he ought to have been to me."
"He's a very comely young gentleman."
"What has comely to do with it?"
"Them as is plain-featured is more likely to stay at home and be quiet. You couldn't expect one as is so handsome to stay at Buston and hear sermons."
"I don't expect him to be knocking men about in the streets at midnight."