Shall we go down to dinner ?" They came together going out of the door, and Frank turned and said:-- "Will you shake hands with me?
I think we shall suit one another." "Aye! that we shall," said Tom heartily; "you're a man's parson; that's about what you are.

But," he added, seriously; "you wouldn't do among the old women, you know." At dinner, Miss Thornton said, "I hope, Mr.Maberly, you are none the worse after your run?
Are you not afraid of such violent exercise bringing on palpitation of the heart ?" "Not I, my dear madam," he said.

"Let me make my defence for what, otherwise, you might consider mere boyish folly.

I am passionately fond of athletic sports of all kinds, and indulge in them as a pleasure.

No real man is without some sort of pleasure, more or less harmless.