I wonder that you can name them in comparison with yourself.' 'If I were to marry a good and honourable man who has his place to make in the world, would you never forgive me ?' 'You mean Mr.Hammond?
You may just as well speak plainly,' said Lady Maulevrier, freezingly.

'If you were capable of such idiocy as that, Lesbia, I would pluck you out of my heart like a foul weed.

I would never look upon you, or hear your name spoken, or think of you again as long as I lived.

My life would not last very long after that blow.

Old age cannot bear such shocks.