"No cottage would be happy then."
"When I speak of poverty, I do not so much mean the natural, habitual poverty of the working-man, as the embarrassed penury of the man in debt. My grub-worm is always a straitened, struggling, care-worn tradesman."
"Cherish hope, not anxiety. Certain ideas have become too fixed in your mind. It may be presumptuous to say it, but I have the impression that there is something wrong in your notions of the best means of attaining happiness, as there is in----" Second hesitation.
"I am all ear, Caroline."
"In (courage! let me speak the truth)--in your manner--mind, I say only _manner_--to these Yorkshire workpeople."
"You have often wanted to tell me that, have you not?"

By poverty, I mean the embarrassed penury of the man in debt."
"Cherish hope, not anxiety," urged Caroline. "I feel there is something wrong in your notions of the best way of attaining happiness, as there is in - in your manner to the Yorkshire workpeople."
"You have often wanted to tell me that, have you not?"
