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.

Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all

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?

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

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

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