Theirs was the pleasure of critics, which, being founded on the judgement, lasts long, and is without disappointment at the close.
It was sufficient that the ladies should lend the inspiration of their bonnets to this fine match.

Their presence on the field is another beautiful instance of the generous yielding of the sex simply to grace our amusement, and their acute perception of the part they have to play.
Mr.Raikes was rather shy of them at first.

But his acting rarely failing to deceive himself, he began to feel himself the perfectly happy man he impersonated, and where there were ladies he went, and talked of days when he had creditably handled a bat, and of a renown in the annals of Cricket cut short by mysterious calamity.

The foolish fellow did not know that they care not a straw for cricketing fame.

His gaiety presently forsook him as quickly as it had come.