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.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

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

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

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

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.