Only you're right in saying she's too good an opinion of herself to think of you. The saucy jade! I should like to know where she'd find a better!

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.