Woolper

It had been noised abroad, through the agency of Mr.. Woolper, that Mr. Sheldon had been a suitor for the lady 'hand, and had been jilted by her.

Birds of Prey 1875

Woolper -- by courtesy, Mrs. Woolper -- was fain to confess to her next-door neighbour, Mrs. Magson, when her master was the subject of an afternoon gossip.

Birds of Prey 1875

It was Mr.. Woolper whom Mr. Sheldon employed to get lodgings for the family, when it had been ultimately decided that a change to the seaside was the best cure for Miss Halliday.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

Mr. Sheldon himself had lived like a modern anchorite for the last four years; and Mr.. Woolper, who was pretty well acquainted with the state of his finances, had pinched and contrived for his benefit, or rather for the benefit of the black-eyed baby she had nursed nine-and-twenty years before.

Birds of Prey 1875

Mr.. Woolper, naturally sharp and observant, was not slow to perceive that Mr. Sheldon was abnormally anxious about his stepdaughter.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

It is possible that before invoking Mr.. Woolper from the ashes of the past to take her seat by the hearthstone of the present, Mr. Sheldon may have contemplated the question of her return in all its bearings, and may have assured himself that she was his own, by a tie not easily broken -- his bond-slave, fettered hand and foot by the bondage of necessity.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

Woolper, both of whom questioned her closely about her interview with the doctor.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

It was a very comfortable little room, and held sacred to Mr.. Woolper; the three young females, and the boy in buttons, who formed Mr. Sheldon's in-door establishment, preferring the license of the kitchen to the strict etiquette of the housekeeper's room.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

She had expected to be contemptuously -- or, at the best, indifferently -- entreated by the prosperous well-placed young lady, whom Mr. Sheldon had spoken of as a good girl, as girls go; a vague species of commendation, which, to the mind of Mr.. Woolper, promised very little.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

Mr. Sheldon, contemplating this and all other questions from his one unchanging standpoint, may reasonably have concluded that Mr.. Woolper would do nothing opposed to her own interests; and that so long as it suited her interest to remain at the Lawn, and to serve him, she would there remain, his docile and unquestioning slave.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875