Such words only pain me.

I don't want your compliments, and if any man made a patron saint of me I should be so exasperated that I should probably box his ears.

Let us stick to what is simple, natural, and true, in all our talk." "You may say what you please, Madge, I see it more clearly every day, and reproach myself that I did not understand you.

I was content to amuse and pet you, and you naturally did not think me capable of doing anything more.

You went away alone to make as brave a fight as was ever battled out in this world, and I had no part in helping you.
Mr.and Mrs.Wayland were worth a wilderness of superficial society-fellows like me.