She is a pretty creature, but strangely unsuited, I fear, to be his wife," and then, as she remembered Lucy's wish to go with her when next she visited the poor, she said: "I will take her to see the Widow hobbs.
"The Rector of St. Mark's"
Mary J. Holmes
Then, there was Widow hobbs, waiting for the jelly Lucy had promised, and for the chapter which Lucy read to her, sitting where she could watch the road and see just who turned the corner, her voice always sounding a little more serious and good when the footsteps belonged to Arthur Leighton, and her eyes, always glancing at the bit of cracked mirror on the wall, to see that her dress and hair and ribbons were right before Arthur came in.
"The Rector of St. Mark's"
Mary J. Holmes
He had raised the low thatched roof another story high-and blue slate had replaced the thatch-and the pretty verandahs overgrown with creepers had been taken down because Mrs. hobbs thought they gave the rooms a dull look; and the little rustic doorway had been replaced by four Ionic pillars in stucco; and a new dining-room, twenty-two feet by eighteen, had been built out at one wing, and a new drawing-room had been built over the new dining-room.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton