But he only remarked that he was not solicitous of high preferment.

I think you would like Rawlings if you knew him better.

You and he have a certain amount in common.

I must own that I am glad that it is Lucy who has to put up with him and not I.I should think even God Almighty must find him rather difficult to live with at times.

And now, Wentworth, if I am to be up and away at cock-crow, I must go to bed." But the Bishop did not go to bed at once when Wentworth had escorted him to his room.
"It was no use," he said to himself.