This said the astute Bartley because one day Hope, who had his opinions on everything, inveighed against a convent, and said no private prisons ought to exist in a free country.

So Bartley's ingenious statement stunned Hope for a minute, but did not satisfy his conscience.
4.

Hope went to London for a week, and Mary spent four days with her husband at a hotel near the lake; but not the one held by Mrs.Easton's sister.

This change was by advice of Mrs.Easton.On this occasion Mary played the woman.

She requested Walter to get her some orange blossoms, and she borrowed a diamond bracelet of Julia, and sat down to dinner with her husband in evening dress, and dazzled him with her lovely arms and bust, and her diamond bracelet and eyes that outshone it.