The difficulty with most men must be not to worship her.' 'Ah, she's not my style.

And she's beastly proud.' 'A little _hauteur_ gives piquancy to her beauty; I admire a grand woman.' 'So do I in a picture.

Titian's Queen of Cyprus, or any party of that kind; but for flesh and blood I like humility--a woman who knows she is human, and not infallible, and only just a little better than you or me.
When I choose a wife, she will be no such example of cultivated perfection as my sister Lesbia.

I want no goddess, but a nice little womanly woman, to jog along the rough and tumble road of life with me.' 'Lady Maulevrier's influence, no doubt, has in a great measure determined the bent of your sister's character: and from what you have told me about her ladyship, I should think a fixed idea of her own superiority would be inevitable in any girl trained by her.' 'Yes, she is a proud woman--a proud, hard woman--and she has steeped Lesbia's mind in all her own pet ideas and prejudices.

Yet, God knows, we have little reason to hold our heads high,' said Maulevrier, with a gloomy look.
John Hammond did not reply to this remark: perhaps there was some difficulty for a man situated as he was in finding a fit reply.