I suppose you came to get bucked up?
He couldn't have gone to a better place, could he, Mrs.Lascelles ?" "Indeed he could not.

I only wish we could empty the hotel and fill every bed with our poor wounded!" I do not know why I should have felt so much surprised.

I had made unto myself my own image of Mrs.Lascelles, and neither her appearance, nor a single word that had fallen from her, was in the least in keeping with my conception.

Prepared for a certain type of woman, I was quite confounded by its unconventional embodiment, and inclined to believe that this was not the type at all.

I ought to have known life better.
The most scheming mind may well entertain an enthusiasm for arms, genuine enough in itself, at a martial crisis, and a natural manner is by no means incompatible with the cardinal vices.