If it's agreeable to you, ma'am, the boys and I might go on to Brading and see the remains of that Roman villa I was talking about yesterday.

That is, unless you would like us to wait till you've done your patchwork there, and all of us go together, eh ?" "No, I wouldn't hear of such a thing," answered Mrs Gilmour, looking up but not pausing for an instant in her task.

"I wouldn't walk a mile to see Julius Caesar himself, instead of his old villa, or whatever you call it." The Captain appeared greatly amused at this.
"I'm not certain that the place ever belonged to that distinguished gentleman," he said.

"It is supposed, I believe, to have been the residence of a certain Vespasian, who was governor of the Isle of Wight some period after its conquest by the Romans; but how far this is true, ma'am, I can't vouch for personally, never having as yet, indeed, seen the spot." "But, I assure you, I've no curiosity to go.

I feel much too tired, and would rather sit comfortably here.