Now, I think--" Aleck shuddered, and said: "How CAN you, Sally! Don't talk in that way, it is perfectly scandalous." "Oh, well, make it a halo, if you like, _I_ don't care for his outfit, I was only just talking.

Can't you let a person talk ?" "But why should you WANT to talk in that dreadful way?
How would you like to have people talk so about YOU, and you not cold yet ?" "Not likely to be, for ONE while, I reckon, if my last act was giving away money for the sake of doing somebody a harm with it.

But never mind about Tilbury, Aleck, let's talk about something worldly.

It does seem to me that that mine is the place for the whole thirty.

What's the objection ?" "All the eggs in one basket--that's the objection." "All right, if you say so.