_I_ shouldn't mind what he was.

I should soon tame him." "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Hesper, with righteous indignation.

"_You would not mind what he was!_" Sepia laughed--this time her curious half-laugh.
"If I did, I wouldn't marry him, Hesper," she said.

"Which is worse--not to mind, and marry him; or to mind, and marry him all the same?
Eh, Cousin Hesper Mortimer ?" "I _can't_ make you out, Sepia!" said Hesper.

"I believe I never shall." "Very likely.