Well, has the young lady given her consent ?" "No, I have not spoken to her.

I meant to do so this morning, but she has slipped off somewhere, with Vernon, I suppose." Mr.Haswell whistled again, but on a new note.
"Pray do stop that noise," said Sir Robert; "it gets upon my nerves, which are shaky this morning.

Listen: It is a curious thing, one less to be understood even than the coincidence of the Yellow God, but at my present age of forty-four, for the first time in my life I have committed the folly of what is called falling in love.

It is not the case of a successful, middle-aged man wishing to _ranger_ himself and settle down with a desirable _partie_, but of sheer, stark infatuation.
I adore Barbara; the worse she treats me the more I adore her.

I had rather that the Sahara flotation should fail than that she should refuse me.