"MERCI DU COMPLIMENT! I should certainly have no show against Bertha." "Do you think I am uncomplimentary?
I'm not really, you know.

Every one knows you're a thousand times handsomer and cleverer than Bertha; but then you're not nasty.

And for always getting what she wants in the long run, commend me to a nasty woman." Miss Bart stared in affected reproval.

"I thought you were so fond of Bertha." "Oh, I am--it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.

But she IS dangerous--and if I ever saw her up to mischief it's now.