You were rapidly becoming one of them, only, fortunately for you, you were sensitive to ridicule.' 'Elizabeth shall have half my money settled on her,' said the General; 'though I fear it is not much.

And if I can find occupation, my lady...' 'Something worthier than that,' said Lady Camper, pencilling outlines rapidly on the margin of a book, and he saw himself lashing a pony; 'or that,' and he was plucking at a cabbage; 'or that,' and he was bowing to three petticoated posts.
'The likeness is exact,' General Ople groaned.
'So you may suppose I have studied you,' said she.

'But there is no real likeness.

Slight exaggerations do more harm to truth than reckless violations of it.
You would not have cared one bit for a caricature, if you had not nursed the absurd idea of being one of our conquerors.

It is the very tragedy of modesty for a man like you to have such notions, my poor dear good friend.