Heavens above! is there no chivalry remaining among men ?" "Ah, if it was only chivalry! But--the Bible!" "Quite so--the--yes, to be sure.

But don't you think you may take the Bible too seriously, Phyllis ?" "Oh, papa! too seriously ?" "Why not?
That's George Holland's mistake, I fear.

Why should he work himself to a fury over the peccadillos of the patriarchs?
The principle of the statute of limitations should be applied to such cases.

If the world, and the colleges of theology, have dealt lightly with Samson and David and Abraham and Jacob and the rest of them for some thousands of years, why should George Holland rake up things against them, and that, too, on very doubtful evidence?
But I should be the last person in the world to complain of the course which he has seen fit to adopt, since it has left you with me a little longer, my dearest child.

I did not, of course, oppose your engagement, but I have often asked myself what I should do without you?
How should I ever work up my facts, or, what is more important, my quotations, in your absence, Phyllis?
On some questions, my dear, you are a veritable Blue-book--yes, an _edition de luxe_ of a Blue-book." "And I meant to be so useful to him as well," said Phyllis, taking her father's praises more demurely than she had taken his phrases.