It is a pity that they should ever have come together." "It is indeed, indeed to be lamented,--and I will own at once that the fault was not hers.

Though I must be firm in this, you are not to suppose that I am angry with her.

I have myself been to blame." This he said with a resolution that,--as he and his wife had been one flesh,--all faults committed by her should, now that she was dead, be accepted by him as his faults.

"It had not occurred to me that as yet she would love any man." "Has it gone deep with her, Duke ?" "I fear that all things go deep with her." "Poor girl!" "But they shall be kept apart! As long as your great kindness is continued to her they shall be kept apart!" "I do not think that I should be found good at watching a young lady." "She will require no watching." "Then of course they will not meet.

She had better know that you have told me." "She shall know it." "And let her know also that anything I can do to make her happy shall be done.