"Dear me! how close it is! Twenty-three--" "If Dyce is elected," pursued the lady, "we must celebrate the occasion in some really striking way.

Of course there must be a dinner for all our poor--" "What I want to know," interrupted Mr.Lashmar, with mild irritableness, "is, how he proposes to meet his expenses, and what he is going to live upon.

If he is still looking to _me_--I hope you haven't encouraged him in any hope of that kind ?" "Of course not.

In my last letter I expressly reminded him that our affairs were getting into a lamentable muddle.

Of course, if _I_ had had the management of them, this wouldn't have come about .-- Do you know what I have been thinking?
It might be an advantage to Dyce if you made friends with the clergy at Hollingford.