Now, Lord Ongar has--heaven knows what--perhaps sixty thousand a year." "In all my life I never heard such effrontery--such baldfaced, shameless worldliness!" "Why should I not love a man with a large income ?" "He is old enough to be your father." "He is thirty-six, and I am twenty-four." "Thirty-six!" "There is the Peerage for you to look at.

But, my dear Harry, do you not know that you are perplexing me and yourself too, for nothing?
I was fool enough when I came here from Nice, after papa's death to let you talk nonsense to me for a month or two." "Did you or did you not swear that you loved me ?" "Oh, Mr.Clavering, I did not imagine that your strength would have condescended to take such advantage over the weakness of a woman.

I remember no oaths of any kind, and what foolish assertions I may have made, I am not going to repeat.

It must have become manifest to you during these two years that all that was a romance.

If it be a pleasure to you to look back to it, of that pleasure I cannot deprive you.
Perhaps I also may sometimes look back.