V.
"All pleasure must be bought at the price of pain. The true pay the price before they enjoy it; the false, after they enjoy it."
"My dear Dick, I am exceedingly concerned to find you in such a taking,—a soldier who has known some of the finest women of the day, moping about a Dutch school-girl! Pshaw! Don't be a fool! I had a much better opinion of you."
"'Tis a kind of folly that runs in the family, aunt. I have heard that you preferred Colonel Gordon to a duke."
"Now, sir, you are ill-natured. Dukes are not uncommon: a man of sense and sensibility is a treasure. Make me grateful that I secured one."
"Lend me your wit, then, for the same consummation. I assure you that I consider Katherine Van Heemskirk a treasure past belief. Confess, now, that she was the loveliest of creatures last night."
"She has truly a fine complexion, and she dances with all the elegance imaginable. I know, too, that she sings to perfection, and has most agreeable and obliging manners."
"And a heart which abounds in every tender feeling."
"Oh, indeed, sir! I was not aware that you knew her so well."