"If such is your fancy, Ralph, let us take one of the paths across the roofs.

I might walk there twenty years by myself without making an acquaintance, and I do not pledge myself to join in these intimacies of yours.

However, I shall be quite content to amuse myself by looking on at the scene in general, while you are paying your visits and drinking your sherbet." "There are plenty of fair girls among the Rhodians," Ralph said, with a smile; "and though we are pledged to celibacy we are in no way bound to abstain from admiration." Gervaise laughed.
"Admire as much as you like, Ralph, but do not expect me to do so.

I have scarcely as much as spoken to a woman since I entered the House in London, and I should have no idea what to say to a young girl." "But it is part of the education of a true knight to be courteous to women.

It is one of the great duties of chivalry.