I come to you and sue for peace.

To save my reputation I endanger myself.

This is generous of you.' 'Am I such a clever fellow ?' thought the young gentleman.

'Deuced lucky with women': he knew that: still a fellow must be wonderfully, miraculously, clever to be able to twist and spin about such a woman as this in that way.

He did not object to conceive that he was the fellow to do it.