She had come upon Douglas in the large room, and had recognized him by his stature and proud bearing, in spite of the handsome Assyrian beard he had allowed to grow during his stay abroad.
"I have been very anxious to see you," said she, forcing a conversation upon him, though he had saluted her formally, and had evidently intended to pass on without speaking.

"If your time were not too valuable to be devoted to a poor hard-working woman, I should have asked you to call on me.

Dont deprecate my forbearance.

You are Somebody in the literary world now." "Indeed?
I was not aware that I had done anything to raise me from obscurity." "I assure you you are very much mistaken, or else very modest.

Has no one told you about the effect your book produced here ?" "I know nothing of it, Mrs.Leith Fairfax.