Come, try me, and see what I can urge in my own defense." "Well, then, I ask you, _a la Godfrey_, what you were thinking of when you, who had an ailing lady in your cart, drove directly over the largest rock you have seen in a week ?" "In the first place, I did not see it.

You need not look quite so incredulous; I assure you I did not." "That is very evident, but no excuse at all.

Pray, where were your eyes ?" "Where nature intended them to be, I suppose." "Nonsense! why didn't you use them ?" "Because I have not the faculty of looking two ways at once, like Brahma; and my optics were irresistibly drawn in an opposite direction." "A truce to all such excuses!" "Patience, Miss Florence, hear me only once more.

The reason is, that I was looking at your cousin over there, and calculating the chances of her surviving suffocation." "There is certainly some danger.

Pray, Mary, why wrap up so closely?
AEolus has closed the mouth of his cave, and the warring winds are securely pent in their prison." "Are you not very much edified Miss Mary?
I should beg pardon for such a waste of time and talk, if I were not aware that "'A little nonsense now and then, Is relished by the wisest men.'" As Mary made no reply, he turned around and regarded her earnestly, Her hat had fallen back from the face, which rested on his black cloak.