"Parsons, I suppose, are much the same as other men, if you strip them of their black coats; and as to their wives, I dare say they won't trouble me.

You may tell Papa I don't at all mean to be left at home." Papa was told, and felt that he could do nothing but yield.

He also felt that it was useless for him now to be ashamed of his children.
Such as they were, they had become such under his auspices; as he had made his bed, so he must lie upon it; as he had sown his seed, so must he reap his corn.

He did not indeed utter such reflexions in such language, but such was the gist of his thought.

It was not because Madeline was a cripple that he shrank from seeing her made one of the bishop's guests, but because he knew that she would practise her accustomed lures, and behave herself in a way that could not fail of being distasteful to the propriety of Englishwomen.
These things had annoyed but not shocked him in Italy.