Praise, even for an act he was secretly ashamed of, and gratitude, though he by no means recognised that he deserved it, were pleasant to him.

He promised to remember the offer of help, but declined for the present to commit his future to the keeping of so bloodthirsty a patroness.
Curiously enough, Hyacinth's reception in college was a great deal more cordial after the Rotunda meeting than it had ever been before.

For a while the battle which had been fought at their doors superseded the remoter South African warfare as a topic of conversation among the students.

Their sympathies were with Augusta Goold.

Even members of the divinity classes suffered themselves to be lured from their habitual worship of respectability so far as to express admiration for the dramatic picturesqueness of the part she played.