'If you mean Mr. Weston to be one of your victims,' said I, with affected indifference, 'you will have to make such overtures yourself that you will find it difficult to draw back when he asks you to fulfil the expectations you have raised.'

'I've done you a piece of good service, Nancy,' he began: then seeing me, he acknowledged my presence by a slight bow. I should have been invisible to Hatfield…

'Why,' said I - 'why should you suppose that I dislike the place?' 'You told me so yourself,' was the decisive reply. 'You said, at least, that you could not l…

'Oh, Richard!' exclaimed she, on one occasion, 'if you would but dismiss such gloomy subjects from your mind, you would live as long as any of us; at least you…

L'amour, tel qu'il existe dans la societe, n'est que l'echange de deux fantaisies et le contact de deux epidermes.

If women could be fair and yet not fond, Or that their love were firm, not fickle still, I would not marvel that they make men bond By service long to purchase…

Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose-easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the sl…