Only for a time." "But I don't want you to go away.

I won't let you go away," she said, a trace of fierceness mingling with her entreaty.

"Why do you want to leave me if you love me ?" "How do I know?
I can no more tell you the whys and wherefores of myself than I can lift myself up by the waistband and carry myself into the next county, as some one challenged a speculator in perpetual motion to do.

I am too much a pessimist to respect my own affections.

Do you know what a pessimist is ?" "A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it." "So, or thereabout.