It would be exciting to look out for wrecks.' 'But otherwise,' suggested Lightwood, 'there might be a degree of sameness in the life.' 'I have thought of that also,' said Eugene, as if he really had been considering the subject in its various bearings with an eye to the business; 'but it would be a defined and limited monotony.

It would not extend beyond two people.

Now, it's a question with me, Mortimer, whether a monotony defined with that precision and limited to that extent, might not be more endurable than the unlimited monotony of one's fellow-creatures.' As Lightwood laughed and passed the wine, he remarked, 'We shall have an opportunity, in our boating summer, of trying the question.' 'An imperfect one,' Eugene acquiesced, with a sigh, 'but so we shall.

I hope we may not prove too much for one another.' 'Now, regarding your respected father,' said Lightwood, bringing him to a subject they had expressly appointed to discuss: always the most slippery eel of eels of subjects to lay hold of.
'Yes, regarding my respected father,' assented Eugene, settling himself in his arm-chair.

'I would rather have approached my respected father by candlelight, as a theme requiring a little artificial brilliancy; but we will take him by twilight, enlivened with a glow of Wallsend.' He stirred the fire again as he spoke, and having made it blaze, resumed.
'My respected father has found, down in the parental neighbourhood, a wife for his not-generally-respected son.' 'With some money, of course ?' 'With some money, of course, or he would not have found her.