Now, were my remarks any worse than his, after all, and what shall I do about it anyway ?" "You should go to bed first," I murmured sleepily; "and if you ever have an opportunity to make amends, which I doubt, you should devote yourself to showing the Reverend Ronald the breadth of your own horizon instead of trying so hard to broaden his.

As you are extremely pretty, you may possibly succeed; man is human, and I dare say in a month you will be advising him to love somebody more worthy than yourself.

(He could easily do it!) Now don't kiss me again, for I am displeased with you; I hate international bickering!" "So do I," agreed Francesca virtuously, as she plaited her hair, "and there is no spectacle so abhorrent to every sense as a narrow-minded man who cannot see anything outside of his own country.

But he is awfully good-looking,--I will say that for him: and if you don't explain me to Lady Baird, I will write to Mr.Beresford about the earl.

There was no bickering there; it was looking at you two that made us think of international marriages." "It must have suggested to you that speech about filling the coffers of the British nobility," I replied sarcastically, "inasmuch as the earl has twenty thousand pounds a year, probably, and I could barely buy two gold hairpins to pin on the coronet.