I would rather lose three-quarters of my fortune than lose her.

Do you understand ?" His partner looked at him, pursed up his lips to whistle, then remembered and shook his head instead.
"No," he answered.

"Barbara is a nice girl, but I should not have imagined her capable of inspiring such sentiments in a man almost old enough to be her father.

I think that you are the victim of a kind of mania, which I have heard of but never experienced.

Venus--or is it Cupid ?--has netted you, my dear Aylward." "Oh! pray leave gods and goddesses out of it, we have had enough of them already," he answered, exasperated.