She had always been kind to me, with a shy fluttering in her manner from which I should have taken comfort had she not been freer and easier with Hamilton.
Betty's manner with me should have given me a hint of the way her heart was tending, even at that early time, but Hamilton was so much more likely to attract a woman than I, and his manner was so much more offhand and dashing than mine that I thought it impossible for such a girl as Betty to think twice of me while she might have been thinking of him.

But I was wrong, as will unfold later; wrong, greatly to my trouble and surprise.
I should be delighted if I could discover the standards whereby women measure men.

Ugly John Prigg is adored by a beautiful wife, from whom no other man can win a smile.

Stupid little Short possesses a tall rare Venus, and cadaverous Long a bewitching Hebe.

Bandy-legged Little Jermyn, of Whitehall, he of the "pop eyes" and the rickets head, he with neither manner, presence, brains, rank, nor money, save what he steals and begs, is beyond doubt the lady-killer of our court, so what are we to do about it all but wonder and "give it up"?
"While you have changed for the better, if at all," said Hamilton, "I also have changed for the better, and sadly for the worse, in some respects.