She had an extraordinary love of the sea, yet she preferred soldiers to sailors.

A woman?
Never one of them more a woman! But it came of her quickness to take the colour and share the tastes of the man to whom she gave herself.
My lord was beginning to distinguish qualities in a character.
He was informed at the mews that Joshua Abnett was on the road still.
Joshua seemed to be a roadster of uncommon unprogressiveness, proper to a framed picture.
While debating whether to lunch at his loathed club or at a home loathed more, but open to bright enlivenment any instant, Lord Ormont beheld a hat lifted and Captain May saluting him.

They were near a famous gambling-house in St.James's Street.
'Good! I am glad to see you,' he said.

'Tell me you know Mr.Morsfield pretty well.

I'm speaking of my affair.