"I don't set up Milton as a model of a town."
"Not in architecture?" slyly asked Mr. Bell.
"No! We've been too busy to attend to mere outward appearances."
"Don't say _mere_ outward appearances," said Mr. Hale, gently. "They impress us all, from childhood upward--every day of our life."

'I don't set up Milton as a model of a town.'
'Not in architecture?' slyly asked Mr. Bell.
'No! We've been too busy to attend to mere outward appearances. 