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

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

Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

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 have seen what comes of being patient," Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it." "What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth. "Nothing!