For whatever faults you may have to blame yourself, over-indulgence toward mine will never be one of them.

You can make your conscience quite clear on that score." Christopher was as determined to treat the quarrel lightly as Elisabeth was to deal with it on serious grounds.
"You have grown into a regular, commonplace, money-grubbing, business man, with no thoughts for anything higher than making iron and money and vulgar things like that." "And making you angry--that is a source of distinct pleasure to me.

You have no idea how charming you are when you are--well, for the sake of euphony we will say slightly ruffled, Miss Elisabeth Farringdon." Elisabeth stamped her foot.

"I wish to goodness you'd be serious sometimes! Frivolity is positively loathsome in a man." "Then I repent it in dust and ashes, and shall rely upon your more sedate and serious mind to correct this tendency in me.

Besides, as you generally blame me for erring in the opposite direction, it is a relief to find you smiting me on the other cheek as a change.