There, that's my honest feeling, and you must make what you can of it; my conscience is clear, thank Heaven!' 'Have you fixed the day ?' 'No,' continued the young lady, still watching the sleeping flies on the ceiling.

'It is left unsettled between us, while I come and ask you if there would be any harm--if it could conveniently be before we return to England ?' 'Paula, this is too precipitate!' 'On the contrary, aunt.

In matrimony, as in some other things, you should be slow to decide, but quick to execute.

Nothing on earth would make me marry another man; I know every fibre of his character; and he knows a good many fibres of mine; so as there is nothing more to be learnt, why shouldn't we marry at once?
On one point I am firm: I will never return to that castle as Miss Power.

A nameless dread comes over me when I think of it--a fear that some uncanny influence of the dead De Stancys would drive me again from him.