"If it would be for my salvation, yes, perhaps; but not short of that; and I should have to prove by a cloud of witnesses that it would.

I don't blame you.

I wasn't born in Boston, but I understand how you feel.

And really, my dear," he added, without irony, "I never seriously thought of asking you to go to New York.

I was dazzled by Fulkerson's offer, I'll own that; but his choice of me as editor sapped my confidence in him." "I don't like to hear you say that, Basil," she entreated.
"Well, of course there were mitigating circumstances.