Agreeable enough he was; but as for your Quest of the Sangreal, whatever it may be, he seemed to have as little notion of anything beyond his own interest as any Greek I ever met." "Unjust! Your words only show how little you can see! That man, of all men I ever met, saw the Quest at once, and followed it, at the risk of his own life, as far at least as he was concerned with it:--ay, even when he pretended to see nothing.

Oh, there is more generosity in that man's affected selfishness, than in all the noisy good-nature which I have met with in the world.

Thurnall! oh, you know his nobleness as little as he knows it himself." "Then he, I am to suppose, is your phantom-husband, for as long, at least, as your present dream lasts ?" asked he, with white, compressed lips.
"He might have been, I believe," she answered carelessly, "if he had even taken the trouble to ask me." "Marie, this is too much! Do you not know to whom you speak?
To one who deserves, if not common courtesy, at least common mercy." "Because he adores me, and so forth?
So has many a man done; or told me that he has done so.

Do you know that I might be a viscountess to-morrow, so Sabina informs me, if I but chose ?" "A viscountess?
Pray accept your effete English aristocrat, and, as far as I am concerned, accept my best wishes for your happiness." "My effete English aristocrat, did I show him that pedigree of mine which I have ere now threatened to show you, would perhaps be less horrified at it than you are." "Marie, I cannot bear this! Tell me only what you mean.

What care I for pedigree?
I want you--worship you--and that is enough, Marie!" "You admire me because I am beautiful.