But I'm willing to let by-gones be by-gones, if you are." "Certainly; I should be glad to forget all that has been unpleasant in the past." "You have improved wonderfully since I saw you last: you were a pretty girl then, but now you are without exception the most superbly beautiful, graceful, accomplished, and intelligent woman I ever saw." "I do not like flattery, Arthur," she answered, turning coldly away.
"Pooh! the truth's never flattery; I declare if we were not so nearly related, I'd marry you myself." "You forget," she said, half scornfully, "that it takes two to make a bargain; three in this case; and two of us would never consent." "Nonsense! I'd soon manage it by clever courting.

A man can always get the woman he wants if he's only sufficiently determined." "In that you are mistaken.

But why broach so disagreeable a subject, since we are so nearly related that the very thought seems almost a sin and a crime ?" "And so you're going to throw yourself away on old Travilla ?" Elsie faced him with flashing eyes.

"No; it will be no throwing away of myself, nor will I allow him to be spoken of in such disrespectful terms, in my presence." "Humph!" laughed Arthur.

"Well, I've found out how to make you angry, at all events.