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.

[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.

There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

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?

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

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

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