If a cat may look at a queen, why mayn't a man love her?
Howsoever, my kind of love ain't likely to interfere with yours.

My kind means sentry-go and perhaps a knife in my gizzard; yours--well, we saw what yours means this afternoon, though what it will all lead to we didn't see.

Still, Captain, speaking as one who hasn't been keen on the sex heretofore, I say--sail in, since it's worth it, even if you've got to sink afterwards, for this lady, although she is half a Jew, and I never could abide Jews, is the sweetest and the loveliest and the best and the bravest little woman that ever walked God's earth." At this point Oliver seized his hand and shook it warmly, and I may mention that I think some report of Quick's summary of her character must have reached Maqueda's ears.

At any rate, thenceforward until the end she always treated the old fellow with what the French call the "most distinguished consideration." But, as I was not in love, no one shook my hand, so, leaving the other two to discuss the virtues and graces of the Child of Kings, I went off to bed filled with the gloomiest forbodings.

What a fool I had been not to insist that whatever expert accompanied Higgs should be a married man.