"I'll say I do, at any rate."
"The truth is, I want to get her, partly because I love her; but chiefly because I do believe in my heart that she loves me."
"It's for her sake then! You are ready to sacrifice yourself to do her a good turn."
"As for sacrificing myself, that's done. I'm a man utterly ruined and would cut my throat to-morrow for the sake of my relations, if I cared enough about them. I know my own condition pretty well. I have made a shipwreck of everything, and have now only got to go down among the breakers."
"Only you would like to take Lady Glencora with you."
"No, by heavens! But sometimes, when I do think about it at all,—which I do as seldom as I can,—it seems to me that I might still become a different fellow if it were possible for me to marry her."
"Had you married her when she was free to marry any one and when her money was her own, it might have been so."
"I think it would be quite as much so now. I do, indeed. If I could get her once, say to Italy, or perhaps to Greece, I think I could treat her well, and live with her quietly. I know that I would try."
"Without the assistance of brandy and cigars."
"Yes."