"Richard, you and I may be called on to bring up the rear.

There's the General's old sword in the hall, and I'll take the Joe Manton from the shelf in the library." "Richard looks as if he disapproved of us all very much," said Sophie, and in truth Richard did look just so.

He did not even answer these suggestions, but began after a moment to talk to Henrietta on indifferent matters.
It was on this afternoon that a new policy was inaugurated at R----.

We were taught to feel that we had been quite aggrieved by the dullness of the past two weeks or more, and that we must be compensated by some refreshing novelties.
Richard was at the head of the movement--Richard with his sober cares and weary look.

But the incongruity struck no one; they were too glad to be amused.