I am only asking you to wait till you find your mate among the noblest in the land.

He may be the handsomest and most accomplished of men, a man born to win women's hearts; and you may love him as fervently as ever a village girl loved her first lover.

I am not going to sacrifice you, or to barter you, dearest.

I mean to marry you to the best and noblest young man of his day.

You shall never be asked to stoop to the unworthy, not even if worthlessness wore strawberry leaves in his cap, and owned the greatest estate in the land.' 'And if--instead of waiting-for this King Arthur of yours--I were to do as Iseult did--as Guinevere did--choose for myself----' 'Iseult and Guinevere were wantons.