“If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirit, " I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!"He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The ref...”

“Bustle about Noddy, or we shant be in time to snabble any of the lobster patties.”

“Perhaps, murmured his lordship, I yielded to a compassionate impulse.A what? gasped his best friend. Oh, did you think I never did so? said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely p...”

“It has always seemed to me that if one falls in love with any gentleman one becomes instantly blind to his faults.But I am not blind to your faults, and I do not think that everything you do or say...”

“Believe me, it is quite unnecessary! I neither know nor care what it cost to redeem Lufraand if you badger me on this very boring matter I shall not invite you to go with me when I try out my new t...”

“Do you recall Fred Merriville?She stared at him. Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?The poor fellow has nothing to say: hes dead, alas!”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”