... Hamley kept his coats, boots, and gaiters, his different sticks and favourite spud, his gun and fishing-rods, the study. There was a bureau in it, and a three-cornered arm-chair, but no books were ... his mother, who could not tell her great- grandfather from Adam, bless her; and Osborne has a girl's delicate face, and a slight make, and hands and feet as small as a lady's. He takes ... chance of a step-mother. To be sure, a step-mother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!' Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 6- P2 The squire...