J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas Quotes
In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?
(...) and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.