It isn't love for me now so much as downright malice against Palliser, because he baulked her project before.

She is a wicked old woman.

Some of us fellows are wicked enough--you and I for instance--" "Thank you.

I don't know, however, that I am qualified to run in a curricle with you." "But we are angels to such an old she-devil as that.

You may believe me or not, as you like .-- I dare say you won't believe me." "I'll say I do, at any rate." "The truth is, I want to get her, partly because I love her; but chiefly because I do believe in my heart that she loves me." "It's for her sake then! You are ready to sacrifice yourself to do her a good turn." "As for sacrificing myself, that's done.