There may be nobler natures, but I've never had the pleasure of meeting one.

Mr.
Osmond's is the finest I know; he's good enough for me, and interesting enough, and clever enough.

I'm far more struck with what he has and what he represents than with what he may lack." "I had treated myself to a charming vision of your future," Ralph observed without answering this; "I had amused myself with planning out a high destiny for you.

There was to be nothing of this sort in it.

You were not to come down so easily or so soon." "Come down, you say ?" "Well, that renders my sense of what has happened to you.