You don't feel interested in it until you begin to play at it.

Well, the longer you entertain those ideas the better I shall be pleased, Isobel.
I only hope that you may long remain of the same mind, and that when your time does come your choice will be a wise one." There could be no doubt that the Major's niece was a great success in the regiment.

Richards and Wilson, two lads who had joined six months before, succumbed at once, and mutual animosity succeeded the close friendship they had hitherto entertained for each other.

Travers, the Senior Captain, a man who had hitherto been noted for his indifference to the charms of female society, went so far as to admit that Miss Hannay was a very nice, unaffected girl.

Mrs.Doolan was quite enthusiastic about her.
"It is very lucky, Jim," she said to her husband, "that you were a sober and respected married man before she came out, and that I am installed here as your lawful and wedded wife instead of being at Ballycrogin with only an engagement ring on my finger.