"My people were friends of yours before we two were born.

Why, then, should you advise your servant, as you have, fairly to deny me admission at the door ?" "I have done ill enough to admit you.

Had I dreamed of this last presumption on your part I should never have seen your face again." "'Tis not presumption," said the young man, his voice low and even, though ringing with the feeling to which even he dared not give full expression.

"I myself might call this presumption in another, but with myself 'tis otherwise." "Sir," said Lady Catharine Knollys, "you speak as one not of good mind." "Not of good mind!" broke out John Law.

"Say rather of mind too good to doubt, or dally, or temporize.