I thought at first he was going to tell me that Blanche had carried out his prediction; but I presently saw that this was not where the shoe pinched; and, besides, I knew that mamma was watching her too closely.
'How can I have ever been such a dull-souled idiot ?' he broke out, as soon as he had got into the room.

'I like to hear you say that,' I said, 'because it does n't seem to me that you have been at all wise.' 'You are cleverness, kindness, tact, in the most perfect form!' he went on.
As a veracious historian I am bound to tell you that he paid me a bushel of compliments, and thanked me in the most flattering terms for my having let him bore me so for a week.

'You have not bored me,' I said; 'you have interested me.' 'Yes,' he cried, 'as a curious case of monomania.

It 's a part of your kindness to say that; but I know I have bored you to death; and the end of it all is that you despise me.

You can't help despising me; I despise myself.