Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite, fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite, fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose. On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was impenetrable.
my child is yet a stranger in the world; she hath not seen the change of fourteen years, let two more summers wither in their pride, ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
