I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

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?

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!

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

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!