... looks and manners were carefully watched. On the contrary, they were rather boisterously merry at the wedding, and poor Mrs Gibson it was that died of consumption, four or five Wives and Daughters ... blind and deaf, and rheumatic as he might be, he was still Mr Hall, the doctor who could heal all their ailments - unless they died meanwhile - and he had no right to speak of growing old, and ... little griefs and pleasures, and poured them into her papa's ears, sooner even than into Betty's, that kind-hearted termagant. The child grew to understand her father well, and the two...