"Well, she is young and beautiful and rich, and it is your duty to obey your father." "But I can't." "Oh yes, you can, if you try." "But I can't try." "Why not ?" "Can't you guess ?" "No." "Well, then, I love another girl.

As opposite to her as light is to darkness." Mary blushed and looked down.

"Complimentary to Julia," she said.

"I pity her opposite, for Julia is a fine, high-minded girl." "Ah, Mary, you are too clever for me; of course I mean the opposite in appearance." "As ugly as she is pretty ?" "No; but she is a dark girl, and I don't like dark girls.

It was a dark girl that deceived me so heartlessly years ago." "Ah!" "And made me hate the whole sex." "Or only the brunettes ?" "The whole lot." "Cousin Walter, I thank you in the name of that small company." "Until I saw you, and you converted me in one day." "Only to the blondes ?" "Only to one of them.