Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
This playing at caring has none of the excitement, but it often leads to the result, and sometimes ends in downright affection." "If Maule perseveres then you'll take him, and by-and-bye you'll come to like him." "In twenty years it might come to that, if we were always to live in the same house; but as he leaves Harrington to-morrow, and we may probably not meet each other for the next four years, I think the chance is small." Then Maule trotted up again, and after riding in silence with the other two for half an hour, he pulled out his case and lit a fresh cigar from the end of the old one, which he threw away.

"Have a baccy, Chiltern ?" he said.
"No, thank you, I never smoke going home; my mind is too full.

I've all that family behind to think of, and I'm generally out of sorts with the miseries of the day.

I must say another word to Cox, or I should have to go to the kennels on my way home." And so he dropped behind.
Gerard Maule smoked half his cigar before he spoke a word, and Miss Palliser was quite resolved that she would not open her mouth till he had spoken.

"I suppose he likes it ?" he said at last.
"Who likes what, Mr.Maule ?" "Chiltern likes blowing fellows up." "It's a part of his business." "That's the way I look at it.