"Then she only thought US fools ?" "Oh no--I don't say that.

I'm speaking of our being selfish." "And that comes under the head of the wickedness Fanny condones ?" "Oh, I don't say she CONDONES--!" A scruple in Maggie raised its crest.
"Besides, I'm speaking of what was." Her father showed, however, after a little, that he had not been reached by this discrimination; his thoughts were resting for the moment where they had settled.

"Look here, Mag," he said reflectively--"I ain't selfish.

I'll be blowed if I'm selfish." Well, Maggie, if he WOULD talk of that, could also pronounce.

"Then, father, _I_ am." "Oh shucks!" said Adam Verver, to whom the vernacular, in moments of deepest sincerity, could thus come back.