He has now twice thought it well to amuse himself by saying to me words which it was ill-natured in him to speak, and--" "Ill-natured, Mary!" "Ill-natured in him to speak," continued Mary, "and to which it would be absurd for me to listen.

He probably does the same to others," she added, being unable in heart to forget that sharpest of her wounds, that flirtation of his with Patience Oriel; "but to me it is almost cruel.

Another girl might laugh at him, or listen to him, as she would choose; but I can do neither.

I shall now keep away from Greshamsbury, at any rate till he has left it; and, Augusta, I can only beg you to understand, that, as far as I am concerned, there is nothing which may not be told to all the world." And, so saying, she walked on a little in advance of them, as proud as a queen.

Had Lady de Courcy herself met her at this moment, she would almost have felt herself forced to shrink out of the pathway.
"Not say a word of me!" she repeated to herself, but still out loud.
"No word need be left unsaid on my account; none, none." Augusta followed her, dumfounded at her indignation; and Frank also followed, but not in silence.