The statues are interesting, but I fail to see why they should have had such an effect upon you." "Oh!" said Frances.

"But you did not stay alone with them as long as I did, or you would have felt it too.

Now I am sure that the debates in Parliament impressed you just as they did me ?" George said nothing, but she went on eagerly.

It never occurred to her that he could be bored by her impressions in these greatest days of her life.

"To see a half-dozen well-groomed young men settle the affairs of India and Australia in a short, indifferent colloquy! How shy and awkward they were, too! They actually stuttered out their sentences in their fear of posing or seeming pretentious.