Theodore Winthrop

“ Hate must have become very bitter in the mother’s heart before she chose this brute and booby for her daughter’s husband. She did not even perceive the dull spark of a better nature, not utterly quenched in him, — gross, dissolute, overbearing, heavy, that he was. ”

“ Kerr repeated, — his caste, in his time, dashed freely, — “do you mean to hint the girl is not fond of me?”
“Fond! she adores you. See how jealous she is! She cannot leave you one moment.”
“I’d have you to know, Madam, with your sneers, that better blood than your daughter have been fond of me.”
“Why didn’t Adonis stay in the home market, then, instead of putting himself in the Provincial?” ”

“ The chances are nearly ten to one in favor of an Englishman’s being a gentleman. Our mother country seemed to have carefully decimated her civil and military service of its brutes, to do the dirty work of flogging the Continentals. ”