But I must spur him on, or we may not have the scaffolding cleared away before the bride comes, if you show dexterous generalship in your wooing, eh, Anthony?
and take your Magdeburg quickly.' 'Ah, sir, a siege is known to be one of the most tedious operations in war,' said Captain Wybrow, with an easy smile.
'Not when there's a traitor within the walls in the shape of a soft heart.

And that there will be, if Beatrice has her mother's tenderness as well as her mother's beauty.' 'What do you think, Sir Christopher,' said Lady Cheverel, who seemed to wince a little under her husband's reminiscences, 'of hanging Guercino's "Sibyl" over that door when we put up the pictures?
It is rather lost in my sitting-room.' 'Very good, my love,' answered Sir Christopher, in a tone of punctiliously polite affection; 'if you like to part with the ornament from your own room, it will show admirably here.

Our portraits, by Sir Joshua, will hang opposite the window, and the "Transfiguration" at that end.

You see, Anthony, I am leaving no good places on the walls for you and your wife.

We shall turn you with your faces to the wall in the gallery, and you may take your revenge on us by-and-by.' While this conversation was going on, Mr.Gilfil turned to Caterina and said,--'I like the view from this window better than any other in the house.' She made no answer, and he saw that her eyes were filling with tears; so he added, 'Suppose we walk out a little; Sir Christopher and my lady seem to be occupied.' Caterina complied silently, and they turned down one of the gravel walks that led, after many windings under tall trees and among grassy openings, to a large enclosed flower-garden.