I wonder you should be guilty of such amazing absurdities.

You really surprise me.' 'I repeat,' said his son firmly, 'that I love her.

You have interposed to part us, and have, to the extent I have just now told you of, succeeded.

May I induce you, sir, in time, to think more favourably of our attachment, or is it your intention and your fixed design to hold us asunder if you can ?' 'My dear Ned,' returned his father, taking a pinch of snuff and pushing his box towards him, 'that is my purpose most undoubtedly.' 'The time that has elapsed,' rejoined his son, 'since I began to know her worth, has flown in such a dream that until now I have hardly once paused to reflect upon my true position.

What is it?
From my childhood I have been accustomed to luxury and idleness, and have been bred as though my fortune were large, and my expectations almost without a limit.