"Even in the admiral's lifetime I did not go.

Being a sailor, and _not_ a clergyman," she added sternly, "he frequented such places of amusement.

But he said he could not have enjoyed a ballet properly with me looking on.

His feelings were singularly delicate." "I am afraid people must be talking about dear Mary a good deal, canon," said Miss Crewys, whisking a ball of wool from the floor to her knee with much dexterity.
Her keen eyes gleamed at her visitor through her spectacles, though her fingers never stopped for a moment.
"I hope not.

I've heard nothing." "My experience of men," said Lady Belstone, "is that they never _do_ hear anything.