Some good homely Scotch kindness for kith and kin, and for some old friends too perhaps; but generally the character seems not to rise above the dull prudentialities of a decent man in awe of the world and the great, and awfully careful about No. 1.

I like it, and the courtesy and fatherly kindness of the men to the women is beautiful, and a lesson to the male creatures of other nations.

I take this to be the right interpretation ofeven your kindness can't destroy me of a suddenI hope I am not in your powerI would give a good deal to be satisfied, &c. "As to writingthat any woman would do that thought she writ well.

I may never have it in my power to do either of you personally a kindness; but some other member of the great family of mankind may need assistance in a way that I can relieve him.

When I came into possession I was making a very fair income at the Bar, and the probability is my aunt did me, unconsciously, the greatest kindness she could in keeping me out of it so long.

It was merely kindness that let me have it.

In tedious courtship we declare our pain, And, ere we kindness find, first meet disdain.