And as for the Pope, if he wasn't quite so fat he would be the nicest old fellow in the world.

Have you been in Rome, Mrs Proudie ?" Mrs Proudie sighed as she replied in the negative, and declared her belief that danger was to be apprehended from such visits.
"Oh!--ah!--the malaria--of course--yes; if you go at the wrong time; but nobody is such a fool as that now." "I was thinking of the soul, Miss Dunstable," said the lady-bishop, in her peculiar, grave tone.

"A place where there are no Sabbath observances--" "And have you been in Rome, Mr Gresham ?" said the young lady, turning almost abruptly round to Frank, and giving a somewhat uncivilly cold shoulder to Mrs Proudie's exhortation.

She, poor lady, was forced to finish her speech to the Honourable George, who was standing near to her.

He having an idea that bishops and all their belongings, like other things appertaining to religion, should, if possible, be avoided; but if that were not possible, should be treated with much assumed gravity, immediately put on a long face, and remarked that--"it was a deuced shame: for his part he always liked to see people go quiet on Sundays.