"I do delight in it, I own," said the lord.

"When I come up here alone, and feel that in the midst of this little bit of a crowded island I have all this to myself,--all this with which no other man's wealth can interfere,--I grow proud of my own, till I become thoroughly ashamed of myself.

After all, I believe it is better to dwell in cities than in the country,--better, at any rate, for a rich man." Mr.Kennedy had now spoken more words than Phineas had heard to fall from his lips during the whole time that they had been acquainted with each other.
"I believe so too," said Laura, "if one were obliged to choose between the two.

For myself, I think that a little of both is good for man and woman." "There is no doubt about that," said Phineas.
"No doubt as far as enjoyment goes," said Mr.Kennedy.
He took them up out of the ravine on to the side of the mountain, and then down by another path through the woods to the back of the house.
As they went he relapsed into his usual silence, and the conversation was kept up between the other two.

At a point not very far from the castle,--just so far that one could see by the break of the ground where the castle stood, Kennedy left them.