She would keep the gate ajar and open a parley; she would certainly not allow number three to come in.
He expressed this view, somewhat after this fashion, to his mother, who looked at him as if he had been dancing a jig.

He had such a fanciful, pictorial way of saying things that he might as well address her in the deaf-mute's alphabet.
"I don't think I know what you mean," she said; "you use too many figures of speech; I could never understand allegories.

The two words in the language I most respect are Yes and No.

If Isabel wants to marry Mr.
Osmond she'll do so in spite of all your comparisons.

Let her alone to find a fine one herself for anything she undertakes.