"To the contrary, 'twould not surprise me to learn that he would not shrink from any adventure which might offer." "You mean--that is--you mean the tall one, him who said he was Mr.Law of Lauriston ?" "Well, perhaps.

Though I must say," replied Mary Connynge, with indirection, "that I fancy the other far more, he being not so forward, nor so full of pure conceit.

I like not a man so confident." This with an eye cast down, as much as though there were present in the room some man subject to her coquetry.
"Why, I had not found him offering such an air," replied Lady Catharine, judicially.

"I had but thought him frank enough, and truly most courteous." "Why, truly," replied Mary Connynge.

"But saw you naught in his eye ?" "Why, but that it was blue, or gray," replied Lady Catharine.
"Oh, ho! then my lady did look a bit, after all! And so this is why the knight flourisheth so bravely in silks to-day--Fie! but a mere adventurer, Lady Kitty.