, and I find it to
mean tinctured with sentiment. On examining further, sentiment is explained to
be thought, idea, notion. A sentimental man, then, is one who has thoughts,
ideas, notions; an unsentimental man is one destitute of thought, idea, or
notion.«
    And Mark stopped: he did not smile, he did not look round for admiration: he
had said his say, and was silent.
    »Ma foi! mon ami,« observed Mr. Moore to Yorke; »ce sont vraiment des
enfants terribles, que les vôtres!«
    Rose, who had been listening attentively to Mark's speech, replied to him: -
    »There are different kinds of thoughts, ideas, and notions,« said she, »good
and bad: sentimental must refer to the bad, or Miss Helstone must have taken it
in that sense, for she was not blaming Mr. Moore; she was defending him.«
    »That's my kind little advocate!« said Moore, taking Rose's hand.
    »She was defending him,« repeated Rose, »as I should have done had I been in
her place, for the other ladies seemed to speak spitefully.«
    »Ladies always do speak spitefully,« observed Martin; »it is the nature of
womenites to be spiteful.«
    Matthew now, for the first time, opened his lips: -
    »What a fool Martin is, to be always gabbling about what he does not
understand.«
    »It is my privilege, as a freeman, to gabble on whatever subject I like,«
responded Martin.
    »You use it, or rather abuse it, to such an extent,« rejoined the elder
brother, »that you prove you ought to have been a slave.«
    »A slave! a slave! That to a Yorke, and from a Yorke! This fellow,« he
added, standing up at the table, and pointing across it to Matthew, - »this
fellow forgets, what every cottier in Briarfield knows, that all born of our
house have that arched instep under which water can flow - proof that there has
not been a slave of the blood for three hundred years.«
    »Mountebank!« said Matthew.
    »Lads, be silent!« exclaimed Mr. Yorke. »Martin, you are a mischief-maker:
there would have been no disturbance, but for you.«
    »Indeed! Is that correct? Did I begin, or did Matthew? Had I spoken to him
when he accused me of gabbling like a