“Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.”

“Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.”

“I am completely half afraid to think.”

“Tell me, ' he continued, 'would it be true that you are an itinerant dentist and that you came on a tricycle?''It would not, ' I replied.'On a patent tandem?''No.'[...]'Then maybe you are no ...dentist at all, ' he said, 'but only a man after a dog licence or papers for a bull?''I did not say I was a dentist, ' I said sharply, 'and I did not say anything about a bull.”

“happeinefs, what is it? lady, difterbed in her Bed, your thoughts of it?”

“What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.”

“In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.”