There they had shocked no one; but here in Barchester, here among his fellow parsons, he was ashamed that they should be seen.

Such had been his feelings, but he repressed them.

What if his brother clergymen were shocked! They could not take from him his preferment because the manners of his married daughter were too free.
La Signora Neroni had, at any rate, no fear that she would shock anybody.

Her ambition was to create a sensation, to have parsons at her feet, seeing that the manhood of Barchester consisted mainly of parsons, and to send, if possible, every parson's wife home with a green fit of jealousy.

None could be too old for her, and hardly any too young.