5/19 It is mirth of the very angriest, but it checks him the more effectually, because of that. "Even '_without_ the title, he is worthy of esteem.'" She copies him audaciously. "What has a title got to do with esteem ?--and what has esteem got to do with love ?" "I should hope----" begins the professor. It has nothing to do with it, nothing _at all_. Go back and tell Mr.Hardinge so; and tell him, too, that when next he goes a-wooing, he had better do it in person." "I am afraid I have damaged my mission," says the professor, who has never once looked at her since his first swift glance. |