Do you mean that I look better, or worse ?" "Better, of course; fifty thousand times better! Why, you look like a beautiful lady.

I tell you, I have seen hundreds of ladies; perhaps you haven't, but I have.

And you look better than all of them." "You say a great deal that you do not think," Insie answered, quietly, yet turning round to show her face again.

"I have heard that gentlemen always do; and I suppose that you are a young gentleman." "I should hope so indeed.

Don't you know who I am?
I am Lancelot Yordas Carnaby." "Why, you look quite as if you could stop the river," she answered, with a laugh, though she felt his grandeur.