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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