I want to see as many countries as I can." "Then you'll go on judging, I suppose." "Enjoying, I hope, too." "Yes, that's what you enjoy most; I can't make out what you're up to," said Lord Warburton.

"You strike me as having mysterious purposes--vast designs." "You're so good as to have a theory about me which I don't at all fill out.

Is there anything mysterious in a purpose entertained and executed every year, in the most public manner, by fifty thousand of my fellow-countrymen--the purpose of improving one's mind by foreign travel ?" "You can't improve your mind, Miss Archer," her companion declared.
"It's already a most formidable instrument.

It looks down on us all; it despises us." "Despises you?
You're making fun of me," said Isabel seriously.
"Well, you think us 'quaint'-- that's the same thing.

I won't be thought 'quaint,' to begin with; I'm not so in the least.