Do you know why you like her ?" "I never thought about it, but I suppose it was because she seemed to like _me_." "Exactly.

You admired her good taste.

A very natural vanity, most pardonable in the young, was gratified at seeing marks of favor so well bestowed." "I dare say you are right.

At any rate, you seem so familiar with the workings of vanity in the human breast that it would be a pity to contradict you." "By-the-way," said Charles, speaking in the way people do who have nothing to say, and are trying to hit on any subject of conversation, "have you heard any more of your tramp?
There was no news of him when I left.

I asked the Slumberleigh policeman about him again on my way to the station." "I have heard no more of him, though I keep his memory green.