Do you think, even if Marian were capable of making an advance, that _I_ would consent to act as a go-between?
Really, Mr.Douglas!" "I confess I do not understand these matters; and you must bear with my ineptitude.

If Miss Lind entertains any sentiment for me but one of mistrust and aversion, her behavior is singularly misleading." "Mistrust! Aversion! I tell you she is in love with you." "But you have not, you admit, her authority for saying so, whereas I _have_ her authority for the contrary." "You do not understand girls.

You are mistaken." "Possibly; but you must pardon me if I hesitate to set aside my own judgment in deference to your low estimate of it." "Very well," said Mrs.Fairfax, her patience yielding a little to his persistent stiffness: "be it so.

Many men would be glad to beg what you will not be bribed to accept." "No doubt.

I trust that when they so humble themselves they may not encounter a flippant repulse." "If they do, it will spring from her unmerited regard for you." He bowed slightly, and turned away, arranging his gloves as if about to rise.
"Pray what is that large picture which is skied over there to the right ?" said Mrs.Fairfax, after a pause, during which she had feigned to examine her catalogue.