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.

I remember only what interests me.

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

[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.

Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another;she's happier gromming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less diginity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a fault, and-a darling!

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!