This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!

If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirt, " 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 reflection gives me sleepless nights.

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

I remember only what interests me.