He stuck his glass in his eye and stared at me last night, in that weird way of his, and said to me, 'Maria, in an ingenuous fashion of your own, you are the most abominably selfish woman I ever beheld.' Still, I know he rather likes me.

I said to him: 'That isn't quite true, James.

I am selfish, but I'm not _abominably_ selfish.

Abominably selfish people always have nasty tempers, and no one can accuse me of having a nasty temper.

I have the disposition of a bowl of bread and milk." "Emily,"-- as wheels rattled up the avenue,--"_is_ that the fishmonger's cart ?" "No," answered Emily at the window; "it is the butcher." "His attitude toward the women here has made my joy," Lady Maria proceeded, smiling over the deep-sea fishermen's knitted helmet she had taken up.