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honour? you will confer upon me that infinite obligation? Adieu, adieu!

It is best to reef one's sails when a hurricane is abroad.

Why did you not speak to her, Blount? She is your old acquaintance.

I have known a lady called Miss Gozling, in whose presence I have stood undismayed; but I must take to my studies, I trow, before I accost my Lady Worrymore.

That is prudent, Frank; you are rather far behind in book-learning.

And have not yet penned a sonnet, I believe.

Faith, I don't know a sonnet from a roundelay; but I shall qualify myself to compose both very expertly, before I become a candidate for her favour.