Of course I'm jealous.' Nevertheless he wrote a courteous answer promising to go over and shoot the coverts, and stay for one night.
He did go over and shoot the coverts, and stayed for one night; but the visit was not very successful.

Aunt Polly would talk of the glories of the Plum-cum-Pippins rectory in a manner which implied that dear Julia's escape from a fate which once threatened her had been quite providential.

When he alluded,--as he did, but should not have done,--to the young Smirkies, she spoke with almost ecstatic enthusiasm of the 'dear children,' Caldigate knowing the while that the eldest child must be at least sixteen.

And then, though Aunt Polly was kind to him, she was kind in an almost insulting manner,--as though he were to be received for the sake of auld lang syne in spite of the step he had taken downwards in the world.

He did his best to bear all this with no more than an inward smile, telling himself that it behoved him as a man to allow her to have her little revenge.