What handsome glasses those are! I didn't know you had such glasses in the house.

Now, Lucy" (to his wife), "you ought to get some like them for ourselves." And when they had abandoned cards, and Winterborne was talking to Melbury by the fire, it was the timber-merchant who stood with his back to the mantle in a proprietary attitude, from which post of vantage he critically regarded Giles's person, rather as a superficies than as a solid with ideas and feelings inside it, saying, "What a splendid coat that one is you have on, Giles! I can't get such coats.

You dress better than I." After supper there was a dance, the bandsmen from Great Hintock having arrived some time before.

Grace had been away from home so long that she had forgotten the old figures, and hence did not join in the movement.

Then Giles felt that all was over.