He must be bound at once with chains, but the chains were made as soft as love and flattery could make them.

Aunt Polly was almost angry,--was prepared to be very angry;--but not the less did she go on killing fatted calves.
There were archery meetings at this time through the country, the period of the year being unfitted for other sports.

It seemed to Caldigate as though all the bows and all the arrows had been kept specially for him,--as though he was the great toxophilite of the age,--whereas no man could have cared less for the amusement than he.

He was carried here and was carried there; and then there was a great gathering in their own park at home.

But it always came to pass that he and Julia were shooting together,--as though it were necessary that she should teach him,--that she should make up by her dexterity for what was lost by his awkwardness,--that she by her peculiar sweetness should reconcile him to his new employment.