But, I really don't think that I'm chiefly to blame.

You won't allow Captain Gambier to be in fault, I know." "Why not ?" said Adela.
"Well, if you will, then he is the principal offender." Adela acted disbelief; but, unprepared for her brother's perfectly feminine audacity of dissimulation, she thought: "He can't be in earnest about the girl," and was led to fancy that Gambier might, and to determine to see whether it was so.
By this manoeuvre, Wilfrid prepared for himself a defender when the charge was brought against him.
Mr.Pericles was thunderstruck on hearing Emilia refuse to go to Italy.
A scene of tragic denunciation on the one hand, and stubborn decision on the other, ensued.
"I shall not mind zis" (he spoke of Love and the awakening of the female heart) "not when you are trained.

It is good, zen, and you have fire from it.

But, now! little fool, I say, it is too airly--too airly! How shall you learn--eh?
with your brain upon a man?
And your voice, little fool, a thing of caprice, zat comes and goes as he will, not you will.
Hein?
like a barrel-organ, which he turns ze handle .-- Mon Dieu! Why did I leave her ?" Mr.Pericles struck his brow with his wrist, clutching at the long thin slice of hair that did greasy duty for the departed crop on his poll.

"Did I not know it was a woman?
And so you are, what you say, in lofe." Emilia replied: "I have not said so," with exasperating coolness.
"You have your eye on a man.