Barry Pain

“ My unmarried sisters—you who more for the ways of luck than for the want of charm are unmarried, and are now likely to remain so!—is it not a consolation to you to recall your beautiful moment—the time when you held, say, a dozen men in the hollow of a pretty hand, and then threw them away? The world is probably saying that you have lost the game ”

“ She is in danger of immediately accepting, on the rebound, some man with whom she is not in the least in love; she is in danger of a deep and self-sacrificing interest in the poor of the East-end, which interest—subsequently proving evanescent—fends to make the poor of the East-end somewhat cynical; she is in danger of showing her hand, a bitter humiliation that, however, most women are clever enough to avoid ”

“ The merits of that kind are disputed; her hygienic boots are hideously obvious. Besides, the strong-minded woman is rarely placed in such a predicament; when she meets the Real One, she mostly marries him mercilessly, whether he likes it or not. ”

“ There was young Reddamore, who is not only on 'Change, but never seems to be quite able to come off it. There was a politician, who was nothing if he was not polemical; an American, who was nothing if he was not rich ”