I would like to see her married to an Englishman.

I would like to see her married to you of all Englishmen because I like you and you have qualities about you which count in life.
Oh, believe me!"-- and he raised a protesting finger to quell an interruption--"I have studied you these years; there is nothing you can say of yourself or your affairs that I do not know." Lord Tancred laughed.
"My dear old boy," he said, "we have been friends for a long time; and, now we are coming to hometruths, I must say I like your deuced cold-blooded point of view on every subject.

I like your knowledge of wines and cigars and pictures, and you are a most entertaining companion.

But, 'pon my soul I would not like to have your niece for a wife if she took after you!" "You think she would be cold-blooded, too ?" "Undoubtedly; but it is all perfectly preposterous.

I don't believe you mean a word you are saying--it is some kind of a joke." "Have you ever known me to make such jokes, Tancred ?" Mr.Markrute asked calmly.
"No, I haven't, and that is the odd part of it.