And you oughtn't to have made me take up with Jim, who was the only one who thought me his equal.

I might have been very silly and capricious; I might have been very vain, but my vanity isn't a bit worse than your pride; my love of praise and applause in the theatre isn't a bit more horrid than your fears of what people might think of you or me.
That's gospel truth, isn't it, Clarence?
Tell me! Don't look that way and this--look at ME! I ain't poisonous, Clarence.

Why, one of your cheeks is redder than the other, Clarence; that's the one that's turned from me.

Come," she went on, taking the lapels of his coat between her hands and half shaking him, half drawing him nearer her bright face.
"Tell me--isn't it true ?" "I was thinking of you just now when I fell asleep, Susy," he said.

He did not know why he said it; he had not intended to tell her, he had only meant to avoid a direct answer to her question; yet even now he went on.