I fancied you might be going to tell me I ought to be more attentive, and not _allow_ my thoughts to wander.

Are not you going to tell me so ?" "No, indeed, you know your duty too well for me to--even supposing--" She stopt, felt herself getting into a puzzle, and could not be prevailed on to add another word, not by dint of several minutes of supplication and waiting.

He then returned to his former station, and went on as if there had been no such tender interruption.
"A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read.
A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing.

It is more difficult to speak well than to compose well; that is, the rules and trick of composition are oftener an object of study.

A thoroughly good sermon, thoroughly well delivered, is a capital gratification.