"Dick! just as soon as you can, you clear the house of old Gideon Rand's son!" "What's he got to do with it ?" asked Colonel Dick.
"I don't know," said the other.

"But I want him out of the blue room, and out of Fontenoy! and now, Dick, I've got a piece to write this morning on the designs of Aaron Burr." At five in the afternoon Cary returned, quiet and handsome, ready with his account of matters at Greenwood, from the stable, upon which Major Churchill must pronounce, to the drawing-room paper, which awaited Miss Dandridge's sentence.

His behaviour was perfection, but "He's hard hit," said his brother to himself.

"What, pray, would Miss Churchill have ?" And Unity, "The shepherds and shepherdesses don't match.

How can she have the heart ?" And Major Churchill, "Are women blind?
This is Hyperion to a satyr." And Jacqueline, "Oh, miserable me! Is he writing or reading, or is he lying thinking, there in the blue room ?".