Doubtless she fulfils her promise of being beautiful ?" "Yes; there is no denying her beauty." "As for her _modonite_, why, Mr.Ross Mallard is a singular person to take exception on that score." "I don't know about that.

When did I say that the modern woman was my ideal ?" "When had you ever a good word for the system which makes of woman a dummy and a kill-joy ?" "That has nothing to do with the question," replied Mallard, preserving a tone of gruff impartiality.

"Have I been faithful to my stewardship?
When I consented to Cecily's--to Miss Doran's passing from Mrs.Elgar's care to that of Mrs.Lessingham, was I doing right ?" "Mallard, you are a curious instance of the Puritan conscience surviving in a man whose intellect is liberated.

The note of your character, including your artistic character, is this conscientiousness.

Without it, you would have had worldly success long ago.