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.

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!

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

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

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 pronounced. “You wrong me! I do, sometimes—not frequently, of course, but every now and then!