Now, apart from your natural dislike to the man, how would you describe him ?" "He looks a gentleman, and, under ordinary conditions, I would regard him as a social equal," admitted the Earl.
"So, unfortunate as the circumstances may be, he is a more desirable _parti_ than the French music-master ?" Then the noble lord flared into heat.
"Dash it all!" he cried.

"You are almost as bad as that detective person.

I am not bothering my brains as to Curtis's desirableness or otherwise, or comparing him with a worm like de Courtois.

I want this marriage annulled.

I want him arrested.