A young fellow must sow his wild oats, and that sort of thing.

But a virtuous attachment is the deuce.

It comes of the d----d romantic notions boys get from being brought up by women." "Allow me to say, Major, that you speak a little too like a man of the world," replied the Doctor.

"Nothing can be more desirable for Pen than a virtuous attachment for a young lady of his own rank and with a corresponding fortune--this present infatuation, of course, I must deplore as sincerely as you do.

If I were his guardian I should command him to give it up." "The very means, I tell you, to make him marry to-morrow.