Will he vouchsafe to me his pardon?
It has been whispered in my ears that his ambition is to be the Don Juan of a country district, and I have said for him, that however grovelling his undirected tastes, he is too truly noble to plume himself upon the reputation they have procured him.

Why did I defend you?
Women, you know, do not shrink from Don Juans--even provincial Don Juans--as they should, perhaps, for their own sakes! You are all of you dangerous, if a woman is not strictly on her guard.

But you will respect your champion, will you not ?' Harry was about to reply with wonderful briskness.

He stopped, and murmured boorishly that he was sure he was very much obliged.
Command of countenance the Countess possessed in common with her sex.
Those faces on which we make them depend entirely, women can entirely control.

Keenly sensible to humour as the Countess was, her face sidled up to his immovably sweet.