My dear girl, don’t talk nonsense to me! You’re lazy, that’s all that’s wrong with you. Why don’t you take up social work?
How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!? remarked Mr. Beaumaris.
My dear girl, you don’t consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn’t do that.
I remember only what interests me.
You don’t feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain’t a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don’t think I could ever love anyone else.
You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself.
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!
This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!
Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?
Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.
Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.
I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire – I admit, a natural one for the most part – to exterminate your fellows.
Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.
There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
I am relieved. May I now have the truth?
As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.
I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur!