I am sure if I were Anne I should love myself better than all the rest of the world." "A very pretty speech, my boy.

You should make an exceptionally fashionable doctor.

You will pardon me for appearing to be cynical, but you see I am a very old man and somewhat warped,--bent, you might say, in my attitude toward the tender passion as it is practised to-day.

Still, I shall take your word for it.

Anne loves you devotedly, and you love her.
The only thing necessary, therefore, is a professional practice, or, in other words, a practical profession.