"I declare I don't understand!" "I dare say not.

You are not used to understanding such things--you are not used to hearing me talk of my feelings.

You are altogether too much taken up with your own.

Be as much so as you please; I have always respected your right.

Only when I have kept myself in durance on purpose to leave you an open field, don't, by way of thanking me, come and call me an idiot." "Oh, you claim then that you have made sacrifices ?" "Several! You have never suspected it ?" "If I had, do you suppose I would have allowed it ?" cried Roderick.
"They were the sacrifices of friendship and they were easily made; only I don't enjoy having them thrown back in my teeth." This was, under the circumstances, a sufficiently generous speech; but Roderick was not in the humor to take it generously.