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!

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

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.

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?

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

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.

Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.