She becomes to me an abstract question which scientific experiment alone can elucidate--" Hamil, leaning on the footboard of the bed, laughed and straightened up.
"All right, Malcourt, if you think it worth while--" "What pursuit, if you please, is worthier than logical and scientific investigations ?" "Make a lot of honest money and marry some nice girl and have horses and dogs and a bully home and kids.

Look here, as Wayward says, you're not the devilish sort you pretend to be.

You're too young for one thing.

I never knew you to do a deliberately ungenerous act--" "Like most rascals I'm liable to sentimental generosity in streaks?
Thanks.

But, somehow, I'm so damned intelligent that I can never give myself any credit for relapsing into traditional virtues.