How could you have played your cards so well and so succassfully if you had not ?" "Come, that's not bad--just what I expected, and I like to deal with clever people.

Did you put yourself on the whetstone before you came here?
I'll go bail you did." "If I did not I would have little chance in dealing with your lordship," replied Mrs, Lindsay.
"Come, I like that, too;--well said, and nothing but the truth.

In fact it will be diamond cut diamond between us--eh ?" "Precisely, my lord.

You will find me as sharp as your lordship, for the life of you." "Come, confound me, I like that best of all--a touch of my own candor;--we're kindred spirits, Mrs.Lindsay." "I think so, my lord.

We should have been man and wife." "Egad, if we had I shouldn't have played second fiddle, as I'm told poor Lindsay does; however, no matter about that--even a good second is not so bad.