We passed the rectory, and there was that idle doctor lolling in the canon's verandah--keeping the poor man from his haymaking.

Has the second post come in?
Any news of dear Peter ?" "None at all.

You know he is not much of a correspondent, and his last letter said he would be back in a few days." "For my part," said Lady Belstone, "I think Peter will come home the day he attains his majority, and not a moment before." "He is hardly likely to stay in London through August and September," said Lady Mary, in rather displeased tones.
"Perhaps not in London; but there are other places besides London," said Miss Crewys, significantly.

"We met Mrs.Hewel driving.

_She_, poor thing, does not expect to see Sarah before Christmas, if then, from what she told us." "She should not have let Lady Tintern adopt Sarah if she is to be for ever regretting it.