Dick is so thoughtless--so careless of other people's feelings.
I shall write to him severely." The adjutant paused in the act of unfolding his napkin.

The prepared explanation trembled on his lips; but its falsehood, repellent to him, was not uttered.
"I should certainly do so, my dear," was all he said, and addressed himself to his breakfast.
"What news from headquarters ?" Miss Armytage asked him.

"Are things going well ?" "Much better now that Principal Souza's influence is at an end.

Cotton reports that the destruction of the mills in the Mondego valley is being carried out systematically." Miss Armytage's dark, thoughtful eyes became wistful.
"Do you know, Terence," she said, "that I am not without some sympathy for the Portuguese resistance to Lord Wellington's decrees.

They must bear so terribly hard upon the people.