Sort of hopeless task, I can assure you." Hunterleys shook his head.
"Honestly," he continued, "I wouldn't let myself think too much about her, Lane.

I don't want to explain exactly what I mean.

There's no real reason why I shouldn't tell you what I know about Mr.Grex, but for a good many people's sakes, it's just as well that those few of us who know keep quiet.

I am sure you trust me, and it's just the same, therefore, if I tell you straight, as man to man, that you're only laying up for yourself a store of unhappiness by fixing your thoughts so entirely upon that young woman." Richard, for all his sublime confidence, was a little staggered by the other's earnestness.
"Look here," he said, "the girl isn't married, to start with ?" "Not that I know of," Hunterleys confessed.
"And she's not engaged because I've seen her left hand," Richard proceeded.

"I'm not one of those Americans who go shouting all over the world that because I've got a few million dollars I am the equal of anybody, but honestly, Sir Henry, there are a good many prejudices over this side that you fellows lay too much store by.