And you look like her, too." It is one of the privileges of old persons to compare the young with this or that parent.
"You are flattering me.

Dad used to say that I was as homely as a hedge-fence." "Now you're fishing, and I'm too old a fish to rise to such a cast." "I heard you sing in Paris a few years ago," said M.Ferraud.
"Yes ?" Hildegarde von Mitter wondered who this little man could be.
"And you sing no more ?" "No.

The bird has flown; only the woman remains." They were at the table now, and she absently plucked the flowers beside her plate.
"Ah, to sing as you did, and then to disappear, to vanish! You had no right to do so.

You belonged to the public," animatedly.
"The public is always selfish; it always demands more than any single person can give to it.

Pardon ?" she said as Cathewe leaned to speak to her.