Sometimes she would bid him let his moustache grow, then she would order him to cut it off; he had to worship Brahma, adopt the fashion of the Hindoos, and had even to undergo the indignity of having his head tied up in a dirty pocket-handkerchief." "That is to say," remarked Jack, "that the lady, not having a pug or a monkey, made Sir Marmaduke a substitute for both." "Very likely, but still Sir Marmaduke was no fool; he was, on the contrary, a gentleman and a philosopher." "I doubt that," said Jack.
"You are wrong, then.

You have been brought up in an out of the way part of the world, and are not familiar with the usages of civilized society.

When once a man has allowed the tender passion to take root in his breast, it cannot afterwards be extinguished at will; it grows and grows like an oil spot, so that what might easily have been mastered at first, makes us in time its devoted slave." "I cannot admit," said Fritz, "that any sensible man would allow himself to be treated in the way you state." "The wisest and bravest have often, for all that, been obliged to bend their heads to such circumstances; in fact, those only escape whose hearts have been steeled by time or adversity.

Well, nothing would please the lady in one of her caprices short of Sir Marmaduke's going alone to the jungle and killing a tiger or two for her.

This caused him some little uneasiness." "I should think so," remarked Jack, "unless he had been accustomed to face the animals." "However, the widow's hand was to be the reward of the achievement, and the thing must consequently be done.