You to me are infinitely interesting, and I believe that I might become so to you.' He did not allow himself to vary from this tone of fanciful speculation, suited to the idle hour.

Rhoda said very little; her remarks were generally a purposed interruption of Everard's theme.

When the cigar was smoked Out they rose and set forward again.

This latter half of their walk proved the most interesting, for they were expectant of the view down upon Wastdale.

A bold summit came in sight, dark, desolate, which they judged to be Great Gabel; and when they had pressed on eagerly for another mile, the valley opened beneath them with such striking suddenness that they stopped on the instant and glanced at each other in silence.