For you, I dare say, it seems more." "For me--oh yes, it seems more," replied Barebone, with his gay laugh, and a glance toward Miriam.
"A little older," continued the rector.

"The church a little mouldier.
Farlingford a little emptier.

Old Godbold is gone--the last of the Godbolds of Farlingford, which means another empty cottage in the street." "I saw it as I came down," answered Barebone.

"They look like last year's nests--those empty cottages.

But you have been all well, here at the rectory, since we sailed?
The cottages--well, they are only cottages after all." Miriam's eyes were raised for a moment from her book.
"Is it like that they talk in France ?" she asked.