I am sure he is well repaid in the honour he receives.
(To Miss Martin.) I hope, ma'am, you feel no bad effects from the cold journey you have had?
None at all, I thank you; we have just felt cold enough to make a warm room very comfortable after it.
What a charming disposition, thus to extract pleasure from uneasiness?
The merit of finding a good fire comfortable after a cold winter journey, is one that may be claim'd without much diffidence.
Pray, sir, did you ever see such a heavy fall of snow come on so suddenly?
Really, madam, I don't recollect.
(Turning again to Miss Martin.) But it is the character of true merit
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