He knows there is always a bed for him in my place." "We see very little of him," Mary Hunter said; "he is always away on horseback all day.

Sometimes he comes in the evening when we are quite alone, but he will never stay long.

He always excuses himself on the ground that he has a report to write or something of that sort.

Amy and I call him 'Timon of Athens.'" "There is nothing of Timon about him," the Doctor remarked dogmatically.
"That is the way with you young ladies--you think that a man's first business in life is to be dancing attendance on you.

Bathurst looks at life seriously, and no wonder, going about as he does among the natives and listening to their stories and complaints.