"We're giving the party, and she ought to have said 'Yes' even if she wasn't." "Do you like my dog ?" he asked, with another effort at light conversation.
"No," she answered, with a little shiver.

"He's ugly." "He isn't ugly," Jeremy returned indignantly.

"He isn't perhaps the very best breed, but Uncle Samuel says that that doesn't matter if he's clever.

He's better than any other dog.

I love him more than anybody.