Edgar Jepson

“ Borrodaile coolly without loosening them—"so far other people have done all the settling. For my part, I have decided never to ask Miss Morgan to marry me unless she chances to be the only woman left in the world, so that you are quite right in saying that that's settled."
"It doesn't matter. You've got to marry a rich wife; and you've no business to talk to me like this. Why—why it would spoil your career—absolutely!"
"We'll put my career aside," said Mr. Borrodaile indulgently. "It hasn't got anything to do with the matter."
"Oh, yes, it has! Everything!" Miss Caldecott protested. ”

“ I should have thought a man who had had his early training, though he had the worst temper I ever came across and ran away from home, might have made a million in South America without growing into such a terribly offensive person. ”

“ She alleged that when he wanted her to go to that horrid Catford he had said that it would be good for her to have a little girl to play with always; and now that she'd found a little girl he wouldn't let her have one.
The Prime Minister was unhappy since there was just enough of a suspicion of justice in her complaint to worry his scrupulous soul.
However, he kept silence with a wisdom very rare in him, and at last his niece said, "Well, anyhow; I don't want her to go and be knocked about and starved in Druggers' Rents, just because there's nobody to look after poor little children. ”

“ First they held conferences among themselves on the matter. These conferences strengthened the strong conviction they already entertained of the impossibility of the marriage. The duchess, whose kindliness of heart is only equalled by her knowledge of the world, summed up the feeling of the members of the conferences when she said, "It will not do. ”