"That's a poor show for a clever lady like you, marquise.
Come, try again." "My mother goes to the point, with her usual honesty and intrepidity," said the marquis, toying with his watch-guard.

"But it is perhaps well to say a little more.

We of course quite repudiate the charge of having broken faith with you.

We left you entirely at liberty to make yourself agreeable to my sister.

We left her quite at liberty to entertain your proposal.