"The moment I began to cut into the stuff, I should be terrified, and lose my self-possession.

I never made a dress for anybody but myself." "You are a little witch!" said Hesper; while Mary, who had roughly prepared a larger shape, proceeded to fit it to her person.
She was busy pinning and unpinning, shifting and pinning again, when suddenly Hesper said: "I suppose you know I am going to marry money ?" "Oh! don't say that.

It's too dreadful!" cried Mary, stopping her work, and looking up in Hesper's face.
"What! you supposed I was going to marry a man like Mr.Redmain for love ?" rejoined Hesper, with a hard laugh.
"I can not bear to think of it!" said Mary.

"But you do not really mean it! You are only--making fun of me! Do say you are." "Indeed, I am not.

I wish I could say I was! It is very horrid, I know, but where's the good of mincing matters?
If I did not call the thing by its name, the thing would be just the same.