You haven't seen much of me and that little bit has been--pretty rough." He laughed away his embarrassment.

"So I appreciate your confidence--a lot.
But I'm afraid that I'd be a tolerable lot like Hervey." He hurried on lest she should take offense.

"You see, I don't like orders." "Of course if it were a man who made the offer to you--" she began angrily.
He raised his hand.

There were little touches of formal courtesy in him so contrasted with what she had seen of him in action, so at variance with the childishly gaudy clothes he wore, that it put Marianne completely at sea.
"It's just that I like my own way.

I've been a rolling stone all my life.