And three inches of her height are--in the boot-maker's heels.

Shut your eyes, and swallow your adulterated wife as you swallow your adulterated sugar--and, I tell you again, you are one of the few men who can try the marriage experiment with a fair chance of success." With that he uncrossed his legs again, and looked hard at Arnold.

Arnold read the lesson, at last, in the right way.

He gave up the hopeless attempt to circumvent Sir Patrick, and--come what might of it--dashed at a direct allusion to Sir Patrick's niece.
"That may be all very true, Sir, of some young ladies," he said.

"There is one I know of, who is nearly related to you, and who doesn't deserve what you have said of the rest of them." This was coming to the point.