It was very pleasant!" said Norman, with a tone of enjoyment that did his father's heart good.
"I was glad you should come in.

Such a curiosity shop is a sight, and those pictures were some of them well worth seeing.

That was a splendid Titian." "That cast of the Pallas of the Parthenon--how beautiful it was--I knew it from the picture in Smith's dictionary.

Mr.Rivers said he would show me all his antiques if you would bring me again." "I saw he liked your interest in them.

He is a good, kind-hearted dilettante sort of old man; he has got all the talk of the literary, cultivated society in London, and must find it dullish work here." "You liked him, didn't you ?" "He is very pleasant; I found he knew my old friend, Benson, whom I had not seen since we were at Cambridge together, and we got on that and other matters; London people have an art of conversation not learned here, and I don't know how the time slipped away; but you must have been tolerably tired of waiting." "Not to signify," said Norman.