Is it true?
That's the question." "I'm sure it's true," said Fanny.
"And so am I," said Florence.

"I don't want any one to tell me that." "Then why did you ask, you simpleton ?" Florence indeed was having a happy time of it at Clavering rectory.

When Fanny called her a simpleton, she threw her arms round Fanny's neck and kissed her.
And Harry kept his resolve about the work too, investigating plans with a resolution to understand them which was almost successful.

During those days he would remain at his office till past four o'clock, and would then walk away with Theodore Burton, dining sometimes in Onslow Crescent, and going there sometimes in the evening after dinner.

And when there he would sit and read; and once when Cecilia essayed to talk to him, he told her to keep her apron-strings to herself.