Very lovely, no doubt." "I want to go there." "Do you ?" she answered, carelessly, and added in lower tones, "So do I." "There's no reason why you shouldn't.

Marry me next week, and we will go straight to Messina." "I will marry you in a fortnight from to-day," said Serena, in quivering voice.
"You will ?" Glazzard walked back to Highmead with a countenance which alternated curiously between smiling and lowering.

The smile was not agreeable, and the dark look showed his face at its worst.

He was completely absorbed in thought, and when some one stopped full in front of him with jocose accost, he gave a start of alarm.
"I should be afraid of lamp-posts," said Quarrier, "if I had that somnambulistic habit.

Why haven't you looked in lately?
Men of infinite leisure must wait upon the busy." "My leisure, thank the destinies!" replied Glazzard, "will very soon be spent out of hearing of election tumult." "When?
Going abroad again ?" "To Sicily." "Ha!--that means, I conjecture," said Denzil, searching his friend's face, "that a certain affair will come to nothing after all ?" "And what if you are right ?" returned the other, slowly, averting his eyes.
"I sha'n't grieve.