Be strong, be positive, be imperious, if you will; only be something,--something that, in looking at, I can forget my detestable self!' Perhaps that is nonsense too.

If it is, I can't help it.

I can only apologize for the nonsense I know to be such and that I talk--oh, for more reasons than I can tell you! I wonder whether, if I were to try, you would understand me." "I am afraid I should never understand," said Rowland, "why a person should willingly talk nonsense." "That proves how little you know about women.

But I like your frankness.
When I told you the other day that you displeased me, I had an idea you were more formal,--how do you say it ?--more guinde.

I am very capricious.