Lucy, who thought that she was bound to speak, said that it was cold, but that she did not mind it when she was walking.

And then Griselda smiled again, somewhat less graciously than before, and so the conversation ended.
Miss Grantly was the elder of the two, and having seen most of the world, should have been the best able to talk, but perhaps she was not very anxious for a conversation with Miss Robarts.
"So, Robarts, I hear that you have been preaching at Chaldicotes," said the archdeacon, still rather loudly.

"I saw Sowerby the other day, and he told me that you gave them the fag end of Mrs.Proudie's lecture." "It was ill-natured of Sowerby to say the fag end," said Robarts.

"We divided the matter into thirds.

Harold Smith took the first part, I the last--" "And the lady the intervening portion.