'"A very dangerous dog that, Miss Keeldar. I wonder you should keep such an animal."
"Do you, Mr Donne? Perhaps you will wonder more when I tell you I am very fond of him."
"I should say you are not serious in the assertion. Can't fancy a lady fond of that brute - 't is so ugly - a mere carter's dog - pray hang him."
"Hang what I am fond of?"
"And purchase in his stead some sweetly pooty pug or poodle: something appropriate to the fair sex: ladies generally like lap-dogs."
"Perhaps I am an exception."
"Oh! you can't be, you know. All ladies are alike in those matters: that is universally allowed."
"Tartar frightened you terribly, Mr Donne. I hope you won't take any harm."'
from Shirley by Charlotte Bronte (Chapter Fifteen)
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