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.

My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

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

I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!

How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris

Horatia said eagerly: "Oh, you will take m-me instead?" "No," said Rule, with a faint smile. "I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child." "B-but it is!" said Horatia vigorously. "One of us m-must marry you!