I knew my father, and even if I hadn't been a wise enough child to know him, I should not have wed, because he married enough to last one family for several years." "You must have had a hard time refusing all those lovely men, though," sighed Ophelia.

"Of course, Sir Walter wasn't as handsome as my dear Hamlet, but he was very fetching." "I cannot deny that," said Elizabeth, "and I didn't really have the heart to say no when he asked me; but I did tell him that if he married me I should not become Mrs.Raleigh, but that he should become King Elizabeth.
He fled to Virginia on the next steamer.

My diplomacy rid me of a very unpleasant duty." Chatting thus, the three famous spirits passed slowly along the path until they came to the sheltered nook in which the house-boat lay at anchor.
"There's a case in point," said Xanthippe, as the house-boat loomed up before them.

"All that luxury is for men; we women are not permitted to cross the gangplank.

Our husbands and brothers and friends go there; the door closes on them, and they are as completely lost to us as though they never existed.