Oh, what fools men are! He will go away; and Dare, on the contrary, will ride over to Slumberleigh every day, and by the time he is engaged to her Charles will see her again, and find out that he is in love with her himself.

Oh, the folly, the density, of unmarried men! and, indeed," (with a sudden recollection of the deceased Mr.Cunningham), "of the whole race of them! But of all men I have ever known, I really think the most provoking is Charles." "Musing ?" inquired her nephew, sauntering up to her.
"I was thinking that we had just lost the pleasantest person of our little party," said Lady Mary, viciously seizing up her work.
"I am still here," suggested Charles, by way of consolation.

"I don't start for Norway in Wyndham's yacht for three days to come." "Do you mean to say you are going to Norway ?" "I forget whether it was to be Norway; but I know I'm booked to go yachting somewhere.

It's Wyndham's new toy.

He paid through the parental nose for it, and he made me promise in London to go with him on his first cruise.