Have you ?" "No, no; but--besides music, there are so many other things," he said dismally.

"She likes pictures, too." "It does not look like it, canon," said Lady Belstone, sorrowfully.
She waved her handkerchief towards the panelled walls.

"She has removed the family portraits to the lumber-room." "At least the Vandyck has never been seen to greater advantage," said the canon, hopefully; "and I hear the gallery upstairs has been restored and supported, to render it safe to walk upon, which will enable you to take pleasure in the fine pictures there." "I am sadly afraid that it is not pictures that poor Mary hankers after, but _theatres_," said Miss Crewys.

"John has persuaded her, if persuasion was needed, which I take leave to doubt, that there is nothing improper in visiting such places.

My dear brother thought otherwise." "You know I do not share your opinions on that point," said the canon.
"Though not much of a theatre-goer myself, still--" "A widow at the theatre!" said Lady Belstone.