He found them, for the most part, married and lay.

There was every variety of opinion in the common rooms, and every variety of perambulators in the parks.

London hours had been adopted, and the society, though by no means frivolous or ostentatious, was anything rather than monastic.

At Oxford, as in London, Froude was almost always the best talker in the room.

He had travelled, not so much in Europe as in America and the more distant parts of the British Empire.