Don't you think I had better take advantage of the confession, and begin and coax and entreat--even cry and be sulky if necessary--for the sake of a mere essay of my power ?" "I dare you to any such experiment.

Encroach, presume, and the game is up." "Is it, sir?
You soon give in.

How stern you look now! Your eyebrows have become as thick as my finger, and your forehead resembles what, in some very astonishing poetry, I once saw styled, 'a blue-piled thunderloft.' That will be your married look, sir, I suppose ?" "If that will be _your_ married look, I, as a Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander.

But what had you to ask, thing,--out with it ?" "There, you are less than civil now; and I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

I had rather be a _thing_ than an angel.