"_Let me be the first, dear, to congratulate you on your well-merited
good fortune_;" _i.e._, "She has the deuce's own luck, and doesn't
deserve it."
"_Thank you so much for your beautiful present, which I shall value for
its own sake as well as for the giver's_;" _i.e._, "Wouldn't give
twopence for the two of 'em."
"_So good of you to send me your new book. I shall lose no time in
reading it_;" _i.e._, "No; not a single second."