It is natural and right that a man at five-and-twenty should be both able and willing to run four miles, a parson above all others, as a protest against effeminacy.

With regard to consciences, those very tender conscienced men oughtn't to want a parson at all." Miss Thornton had barely left the room, to go up to the Vicar, leaving Tom and Frank Maberly over their wine, when the hall-door was thrown open, and the well-known voice of the Doctor was heard exclaiming in angry tones:-- "If! sir, if! always at if's.

If Blucher had destroyed the bridge, say you, as if he ever meant to be such a Vandal.

And if he had meant to do it, do you think that fifty Wellesleys in one would have stayed him?
No, sir; and if he had destroyed every bridge on the Seine, sir, he would have done better than to be overruled by the counsels of Wellington (glory go with him, however! He was a good man).

And why, forsooth ?--because the English bore the brunt at Waterloo, in consequence of the Prussians being delayed by muddy roads." "And Ligny," said the laughing voice of Major Buckley.