Lynn is too short; it sounds like an abbreviation of Linwood." "If you mean by frankness, a disposition to tell all I think and feel, I am not frank," I answered, without noticing her last remark, which created a smile in others.
"You do not like to hear people express _all_ their thoughts, good, bad, or indifferent ?" "Indeed I do not.

I like to have them winnowed before they are uttered." "Then you will not like _me_, and I am sorry for it.

I have taken an amazing fancy to you.

Never mind; I shall take you by storm when we get to Grandison Place.

Do you know I am going home with you?
Are you not delighted ?" She burst into one of her great, rich laughs, at the sight of my dismayed countenance.