How narrow and ridiculous such things are! We live in a better age than that, at any rate, although we are small enough still in many ways." "You are not; and you will enlarge many others," Carne answered, as if the matter were beyond debate.

"As for boundaries now, I have none, because the estates are gone, and I am all the richer.

That is the surest way to liberate the mind." "Will you oblige me," said Frank, to change the subject, for his mind did not seek to be liberated so, and yet wished its new admirer to remain in admiration, "by looking along the shore towards Springhaven as far as you can see, and telling me whether any one is coming?
My sisters were to follow me, if the weather kept fine, as soon as they had paid a little visit at the rectory.

And my sight is not good for long distances." "I think I can see two ladies coming, or at any rate two figures moving, about a mile or more away, where the sands are shining in a gleam of sunlight.

Yes, they are ladies.