As here, for example: and that of itself devours more minutes than ten.

Rockney and Mattock could be roused; but these English, slow to kindle, can't subside in a twinkling; they are for preaching on when they have once begun; betray the past engagement, and the ladies are chilled, and your wife puts you the pungent question: 'Did you avoid politics, Con ?' in the awful solitude of domestic life after a party.

Now, if only there had been freedom of discourse during the dinner hour, the ten disembarrassed minutes allotted to close it would have afforded time sufficient for hearty finishing blows and a soothing word or so to dear old innocent Mr.
Rumford, and perhaps a kindly clap of the shoulder to John Mattock, no bad fellow at bottom.

Rockney too was no bad fellow in his way.

He wanted no more than a beating and a thrashing.