As we were obliged to converse with her through an ear trumpet, we left her to do most of the talking.
She gave us many amusing experiences of her travels in America, and her comments on the London Convention were rich and racy.

She was not an attractive woman in either manner or appearance, though considered great and good by all who knew her.
We spent a few days with Thomas Clarkson, in Ipswich.

He lived in a very old house with long rambling corridors, surrounded by a moat, which we crossed' by means of a drawbridge.

He had just written an article against the colonization scheme, which his wife read aloud to us.

He was so absorbed in the subject that he forgot the article was written by himself, and kept up a running applause with "hear!" "hear!" the English mode of expressing approbation.