You address them on English Literature, I think ?' Egremont did not care to explain that he had now a broader subject.

He murmured an affirmative.

Dalmaine had hoped to elicit some of the 'Thoughts for the Present,' and felt disappointment.
'An excellent choice, it seems to me,' he continued, making his glass revolve on the table-cloth.

'They are much too ignorant of the best wealth of their country.

They have so few inducements to read the great historians, for instance.