Between the two it will be awful work for me." "So I should think," returned Mr.Carr.

"The ass between two bundles of hay was nothing to it." "He was not an ass at all, compared with what I am," assented Val, gloomily.
"Well, if a man behaves like an ass--" "Don't moralize," interrupted Hartledon; "but rather advise me how to get out of my dilemma.

The morning's drawing on, and I have promised to ride with Maude." "You had better ride alone.

All the advice I can give you is to draw back by degrees, and so let the flirtation subside.

If there is no actual entanglement--" "Stop a bit, Carr; I had not come to it," interrupted Lord Hartledon, who in point of fact had been holding back what he called the climax, in his usual vacillating manner.