"Without it, Venus herself, ever young and ever fair, would be a millstone around any man's neck, in these later days.

Great God! How you missed it! If I had only stumbled on this discovery sooner.

You could have antedated Ferris' crafty game.
"You could have easily married Alice.

She has often told my Francine that you were the noblest of men." But the moody Randall Clayton had tired already of hearing Miss Francine Delacroix's praises in divers keys.
"Poor Little Sister," muttered Randall Clayton.

"Traded off to a senator's nephew, for an illicit government pull.