As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

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?

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

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

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.