I don't believe she will ever extinguish our cigars, Jack, even in the drawing-room.

I look forward to the happiest home that ever a man possessed; and it would be no home of mine if you were not welcome and honoured in it.

I hope we shall spend many a summer evening on the lawn, Jack, with a bottle of Pomard or St.Julien between us, watching the drowsy old anglers in their punts, and the swift outriggers flashing past in the twilight.

I mean to find some snug little place by the river, you know, Saltram--somewhere about Teddington, where the gardens slope down to the water's edge." "Very pleasant! and you will make an admirable family man, Gil.

You have none of the faults that render me ineligible for the married state.