I wish to goodness you would take me and drive me back to the ways of common sense." "Meaning--?
"That I am getting cranky and diffident.

I am beginning to get nervous about people's opinion and sensitive to my own eccentricity.

It is a sad case for a man who never used to care a straw for a soul on earth." "Lewie, attend to me," said Wratislaw, with mock gravity.

"You have not by any chance been falling in love ?" The accused blushed like a girl, and lied withal like a trooper, to the delight of the un-Christian George.
"Well, then, my dear fellow, there is hope for you yet.

If a man once gets sentimental, he desires to be normal above all things, for he has a crazy intuition that it is the normal which women really like, being themselves but a hair's-breadth from the commonplace.