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218 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1872
The propriety of every one was intense by reason of the influence of Fancy, who, as an additional precaution in this direction, had strictly charged her father and the tranter [Dick’s father] to carefully avoid saying ‘thee’ and ‘thou’ in their conversation, on the plea that those ancient words sounded so very humiliating to persons of newer taste; also that they were never to be seen drawing the back of the hand across the mouth after drinking—a local English custom of extraordinary antiquity, but stated by Fancy to be decidedly dying out among the upper classes of society.
“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”
"If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”