"You'll find that an imaginary line can change you into a stranger."
"Hagar, I'm used to getting what I set my heart and brain upon."
"So was a gentleman named Napoleon Bonaparte. He got it—up to a certain limit."
"I don't believe you are in earnest. I don't believe you have ever really considered—And I intend one day to make you see—"
"See what? See my enormous advantage in marrying you? Oh, you—man!"
"See that you love me."
"How, you mean, can I help it? Oh, you—featherless biped!"
Ralph broke in two the bit of stick in his hands with a snapping sound. "I'm mad for you, and I'd like to pay you out—"
"You are more remotely ancestral than almost any man I know!—Come, come! let us stop this and talk as cousins and old playmates. There's Wall Street left, and who is going to be President, and what are you going to do with Hawk Nest."