Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.
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.
She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.
Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I might well be your father. How old are you?" "I am turned seventeen. " "Well, I am nearly thirty," said Sir Richard. Miss Creed worked this out. "You couldn't possibly be my father!" "I am far too drunk to solve arithmetical problems. Let it suffice that I have not the slightest intention of making love to you.
And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” “No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm. " "Voyons, do you think that is what I like?
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.