I'm dying to know what they're all about." "They're chiefly about antiquities," responded St Aubyn; "early Peruvian, Mexican, Egyptian, and so on.

You're perfectly welcome to read them all if you care to.

They're not at all deep, whatever my aunt may say." During this brief interchange of remarks, Lady Merthyr Tydvil had been gazing rather fixedly at Austin, with her head on one side like an enquiring old bird, and a puzzled expression on her face.
"The most curious likeness!" she exclaimed.

"Now, how is it that your face seems so familiar to me, I wonder?
I've certainly never seen you anywhere before, and yet--and yet--who _is_ it you remind me of, for goodness' sake ?" "I wish I could tell you," replied Austin, laughing.

"Likenesses are often quite accidental, and it may be----" "Stuff and nonsense, my dear," interrupted the old lady, brusquely.
"There's nothing accidental about this.