But I shall not forget any of my friends." Now up to this point Eugene had behaved tolerably well.

It is, however, a dangerous thing to set yourself deliberately to study a lady's attractions.

Like all other one-sided views of a subject, it is apt to carry you too far.

The sun and the wind were playing about in Claudia's hair, her eyes were full of light, and her whole air, in spite of a genuine effort after demureness, conveyed to any self-respecting man an irresistible challenge to make himself agreeable if he could.

Eugene's notions of making himself agreeable were, as may have been gathered, liberal; they certainly included more than can be considered strictly incumbent on young men in society.