If it would do him any good you would lie down and let him trample on you.

Have I not often warned you that if you go on like this you will turn him out a full-fledged tyrant?
Human nature--masculine human nature I mean," correcting herself--"will not stand it.

An enfant gate is always odious to sensible people.

Now, if you were to try and spoil me," expanding herself until she looked twice her size, "I should only bloom out into fresh beauty--approbation, commendation, blindfold admiration would be meat and drink to me.

I have the digestion of a young ostrich," continued Elizabeth blandly--"nothing would be too difficult for me to swallow.