Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

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

If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirt, " I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to me,cousin! You are quite abominable!" He sighed. "Alas, I know it! The reflection gives me sleepless nights.

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

Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

I remember only what interests me.