Well, it is too late now to regret consequences in this way.

I have had the happiness of seeing you and knowing you at least.' 'You dissent from Church, and I dissent from State,' she said.

'And I don't see why we are not well matched.' He smiled sadly, while Lizzy remained looking down, her eyes beginning to overflow.
That was an unhappy evening for both of them, and the days that followed were unhappy days.

Both she and he went mechanically about their employments, and his depression was marked in the village by more than one of his denomination with whom he came in contact.

But Lizzy, who passed her days indoors, was unsuspected of being the cause: for it was generally understood that a quiet engagement to marry existed between her and her cousin Owlett, and had existed for some time.
Thus uncertainly the week passed on; till one morning Stockdale said to her: 'I have had a letter, Lizzy.