Do you consider paying compliments the perfection of gentlemanly behavior ?" "Have I been paying you many?
That last remark of mine was not meant as one.

On my honor, the angels will not disappoint me if they are no lovelier than you should be if you had that look in your face and that tone in your voice I spoke of just now.

It can hardly displease you to hear that.

If I were particularly handsome myself, I should like to be told so." "I am sorry I cannot tell you so." "Oh! Ha! ha! What a retort, Miss Lindsay! You are not sorry either; you are rather glad." Gertrude knew it, and was angry with herself, not because her retort was false, but because she thought it unladylike.

"You have no right to annoy me," she exclaimed, in spite of herself.
"None whatever," he said, humbly.