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Good God, the fellow's a dead bore!' 'He is, of course, but there's no saying he wouldn't be a good husband, for he is very kind, and honourable and -- and respectable, which I believe are excellent qualities in a husband.' 'No doubt! But not in *your* husband!

Oh –! At least own that you would provoke a saint!' 'I never tried to. You are no saint!

Of a certainty Madame has died, Leonie said wickedly. Tiens, c'est bien drole!

You must know I can't – how impossible it would be!' 'No, I don't. Why should it be?' 'The – the circumstances!' she uttered, in a stifled voice. He looked to be a good deal puzzled. 'What circumstances? Mine? Oh, I'm perfectly well able to support a wife! You must have been listening to my horrid nephew.

The servants were letting down the steps of the two coaches, and in another instant Miss Morville's worst fears were realized: Lord and Lady Grampound had brought their interesting offspring with them to Stanyon.

He will be company for you, you know. I wonder you do not have a dog already.' 'I do – in the country,' he replied. 'Oh, sporting dogs! They are not at all the same.' Mr Beaumaris, after another look at his prospective companion, found himself able to agree with this remark with heartfelt sincerity.

Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences.

I allow you all the vices you choose to claim -- indeed, I know you for a gamester, and a shocking rake, and a man of sadly unsteady character! -- but I'm not so green that I don't recognize in you one virtue and least, and one quality.' 'What, is that all? How disappointing! What are they?' 'A well-informed mind, and a great deal of kindness.

Your presence in England is extremely – shall we say enlivening? – Vidal. But I believe I shall survive the loss of it.

Providence has decreed that he should succeed to his dear father's honours,' pronounced the Dowager, thinking poorly of Providence.

Whatever should I do if Mama were to arrive while you are gone?' 'Hide in the hay-loft!' he recommended. 'But if she has a particle of commonsense she won't make the smallest push to recover you!

Mama –?' 'But of course! Outside, in my curricle.' Then he saw that she had turned perfectly white, and said: 'Don't be such a goose-cap! You can't suppose I would drive your mother-in-law thirty yards, let alone thirty miles!

my debts, sir!' A dreadful thought occurred to him; he stared very hard at his

She said reflectively. 'Ma'am, I think fathers are– are the veriest plague.' 'We have suffered, child,' said Miss Merriot.

Mr Ringwood, too relieved for speech, took the weapon

But I'm about to offer for you!' said the Viscount, with more than a touch of asperity.

Vauxhall. 'I did not scruple to accept, my

Indeed, my fear is that my overbearing, self-willed ways may have given you a distaste of me which not all my future efforts may serve to eradicate.

There was nothing romantic about Miss Charing's appearance, but her entrance would not have shamed a Siddons. You, she uttered in accents of loathing. I might have known it!

Them Frenchies!' 'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench.

Wolf exchanged objurgations with an Airedale seated in a large touring-car and

The girl's not like the one you saw. She's a lady. You know her.' 'I don't,' contradicted Miss Marling positively. 'Mamma would never let me know the sort of female who would run off with you, Dominic.

Only one lady saw any impropriety in it, and as she was notoriously spiteful, and had two rather plain daughters of marriageable age on her hands, no one paid any heed to her.

I should find that sort of thing most disconcerting! Manna, too! I've never been able to discover what kind of food that was, but I am persuaded I shouldn't like it, even if I were starving, and it was suddenly dropped on me, which I think extremely unlikely.