I remember only what interests me.

Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life." She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.

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

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

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.

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.