Since you HAVE so great a charm trust it not at all or all in all.

That, I dare say, is all you can do.

Therefore--yes--be yourself." These remarks were followed on either side by the repetition of a somewhat intenser mutual gaze, though indeed the speaker's eyes had more the air of meeting his friend's than of seeking them.

"I can't be YOU certainly, Van," Mrs.Brook sadly brought forth.
"I know what you mean by that," he rejoined in a moment.

"You mean I'm hypocritical." "Hypocritical ?" "I'm diplomatic and calculating--I don't show him how bad I am; whereas with you he knows the worst." Of this observation Mrs.Brook, whose eyes attached themselves again to Mr.Longdon, took at first no further notice than might have been indicated by the way it set her musing.
"'Calculating' ?"--she at last took him up.