"I really have given you no cause to be so unhappy; surely teaching you a little Armenian was a very innocent kind of diversion." "Yes, but you went on so long, and in such a strange way, and made me repeat such strange examples, as you call them, that I could not bear it." "Why, to tell you the truth, Belle, it's just my way; and I have dealt with you just as I would with--" "A hard-mouthed jade," said Belle, "and you practising your horse-witchery upon her.

I have been of an unsubdued spirit, I acknowledge, but I was always kind to you; and if you have made me cry, it's a poor thing to boast of." "Boast of!" said I; "a pretty thing indeed to boast of; I had no idea of making you cry.

Come, I beg your pardon; what more can I do?
Come, cheer up, Belle.

You were talking of parting; don't let us part, but depart, and that together." "Our ways lie different," said Belle.
"I don't see why they should," said I.

"Come, let us be off to America together." "To America together ?" said Belle, looking full at me.
"Yes," said I; "where we will settle down in some forest, and conjugate the verb siriel conjugally." "Conjugally ?" said Belle.
"Yes," said I; "as man and wife in America, air yew ghin." "You are jesting, as usual," said Belle.
"Not I, indeed.