"No, I didn't know it; but that doesn't prove anything.

When I went to school we didn't study the history of the Elizabethan period.

She didn't have absolute sway over England, then ?" "She had; but what of that ?" queried Raleigh.
"Do you mean to say that she lived and died an old maid from choice ?" demanded Confucius.
"Certainly I do," said Raleigh.

"And why should I not tell you that ?" "For a very good and sufficient reason," retorted Confucius, "which is, in brief, that I am not a marine.

I may dislike women, my dear Raleigh, but I know them better than you do, gallant as you are; and when you tell me in one and the same moment that a woman holding absolute sway over men yet lived and died an old maid, you must not be indignant if I smile and bite the end of my thumb, which is the Chinese way of saying that's all in your eye, Betty Martin." "Believe it or not, you poor old back number," retorted Raleigh, hotly.
"It alters nothing.