I'm glad you're not in Rome now--which you might be, would probably be, if you had gone there a month ago.
There's something I should like you to do at present in Florence." "Please remember my indolence," said Osmond.
"I do remember it; but I beg you to forget it.

In that way you'll have both the virtue and the reward.

This is not a great labour, and it may prove a real interest.

How long is it since you made a new acquaintance ?" "I don't think I've made any since I made yours." "It's time then you should make another.

There's a friend of mine I want you to know." Mr.Osmond, in his walk, had gone back to the open door again and was looking at his daughter as she moved about in the intense sunshine.
"What good will it do me ?" he asked with a sort of genial crudity.
Madame Merle waited.