1 He lost his elder brother a few years since.
2 Mary perused it in silence, and returned it to her brother.
3 The two ladies, their brother, Mr. St. John, the old servant, were all gazing at me.
4 Having finished my task of gooseberry picking, I asked where the two ladies and their brother were now.
5 Diana and Mary Rivers became more sad and silent as the day approached for leaving their brother and their home.
6 Say again you will be my brother: when you uttered the words I was satisfied, happy; repeat them, if you can, repeat them sincerely.
7 My father and my brother Rowland knew all this; but they thought only of the thirty thousand pounds, and joined in the plot against me.
8 He seemed to think I had committed an impropriety in proposing to accompany him unmarried: as if I had not from the first hoped to find in him a brother, and habitually regarded him as such.
9 When Diana and Mary returned, the former found her scholar transferred from her to her brother: she laughed, and both she and Mary agreed that St. John should never have persuaded them to such a step.
10 Diana and Mary relieved me by turning their eyes elsewhere than to my crimsoned visage; but the colder and sterner brother continued to gaze, till the trouble he had excited forced out tears as well as colour.