But you are not to expect that I shall express an approval which I do not feel." "But I want you to approve it." "Ah!--there, I fear, I cannot oblige you." "I want you to approve it, though no one else may." "Though all else should do so, I cannot." "Then take the task of curing the sick one, and of strengthening the weak one, into your own hands.

If you will teach, perhaps I may learn." "I have no mission for teaching, Mr.Maule." "You once said that,--that--" "Do not be so ungenerous as to throw in my teeth what I once said,--if I ever said a word that I would not now repeat." "I do not think that I am ungenerous, Miss Palliser." "I am sure you are not." "Nor am I self-confident.

I am obliged to seek comfort from such scraps of encouragement as may have fallen in my way here and there.
I once did think that you intended to love me." "Does love go by intentions ?" "I think so,--frequently with men, and much more so with girls." "It will never go so with me.

I shall never intend to love any one.
If I ever love any man it will be because I am made to do so, despite my intentions." "As a fortress is taken ?" "Well,--if you like to put it so.

Only I claim this advantage,--that I can always get rid of my enemy when he bores me." "Am I boring you now ?" "I didn't say so.