"By George! she's pretty!" "No name for it! Have you in your life ever seen anything so beautiful ?" cried Ridgeway.

He stared at her so intently that she averted her face.
"Wonder who she can be?
The old man must be her father.

Strange we haven't seen them before.

I'm sure that she hasn't been on deck." "You seem interested--do you want a flirtation ?" "Oh, Grace wouldn't stand for that--not for a minute." "I don't believe she would object if you carried it on skilfully," smiled the other.
"It wouldn't be right, no matter how harmless.

I couldn't think of being so confoundedly brutal." "Sisters don't usually take such things to heart." Hugh came to himself with a start and for a moment or two could find no word of response, so deeply engrossed was he in the effort to remember whether he had said anything that might have betrayed his secret.
"Oh," he laughed awkwardly, "you don't understand me.