The effect of this delicate compact seemed excellent; it ensured them a week's intellectual sunshine.

Roderick sat and gazed out of the window with a fascinated stare, and with a perfect docility of attitude.

He concerned himself not a particle about the itinerary, or about any of the wayside arrangements; he took no trouble, and he gave none.

He assented to everything that was proposed, talked very little, and led for a week a perfectly contemplative life.

His mother rarely removed her eyes from him; and if, a while before, this would have extremely irritated him, he now seemed perfectly unconscious of her observation and profoundly indifferent to anything that might befall him.