But get off your big coat and make yourself comfortable." And that was all the scolding that Mark Robarts got from his wife on the occasion of his great iniquity.
"I will certainly tell her about this bill transaction," he said to himself; "but not to-day; not till after I have seen Lufton." That evening they dined at Framley Court, and there they met the young lord; they found also Lady Lufton still in high good-humour.

Lord Lufton himself was a fine, bright-looking young man; not so tall as Mark Robarts, and with perhaps less intelligence marked on his face; but his features were finer, and there was in his countenance a thorough appearance of good-humour and sweet temper.

It was, indeed, a pleasant face to look upon, and dearly Lady Lufton loved to gaze at it.
"Well, Mark, So you have been among the Philistines ?" that was his lordship's first remark.

Robarts laughed as he took his friend's hands, and bethought himself how truly that was the case; that he was, in very truth, already "himself in bonds under Philistian yoke." Alas, alas, it is very hard to break asunder the bonds of the latter-day Philistines.

When a Samson does now and then pull a temple down about their ears, is he not sure to be engulfed in the ruin with them?
There is no horse-leech that sticks so fast as your latter-day Philistine.
"So you have caught Sir George, after all," said Lady Lufton; and that was nearly all she did say in allusion to his absence.