You'll hardly believe it, but I did.

Watched her presented; such grace, such a smile, such a divine lift of the lashes.

I was really in love, and with a girl who would marry me! I was never so near a fatal thing in my life----" "Well ?" asked the Seraph, pausing to listen till he let the ice in his sherry-cobbler melt away.

When you have been so near breaking your neck down the Matrimonial Matterhorn, it is painfully interesting to hear how your friend escaped the same risks of descent.
"Well," resumed Bertie, "I was very near it.

I did nothing but watch her; she saw me, and I felt she was as flattered and as touched as she ought to be.