I was looking at your daughter--staring at her.

I am afraid you thought me impertinent." "Your perspicuity," Mr.Grex observed, "seems to be of a higher order than your manners.

You are, perhaps, a stranger to civilised society ?" "I don't know about that," Richard went on doggedly.

"I have been to college and mixed with the usual sort of people.

My birth isn't much to speak of, perhaps, if you count that for anything." Something which was almost like the ghost of a smile, devoid of any trace of humour, parted Mr.Grex's lips.
"If I count that for anything!" he repeated, half closing his eyes for a moment.