And to tell the truth exactly, he didn't." "Then why do you say he did ?" "I don't think he did quite ask me, but he gave me to understand that he would do so if I gave him any encouragement." "Did he mean it ?" "Yes;--poor boy! He meant it.

With a word;--with a look, he would have been down there kneeling.

He asked me whether I liked him well enough.

What do you think I did ?" "What did you do ?" "I spared him;--out of sheer downright Christian charity! I said to myself 'Love your neighbours.' 'Don't be selfish.' 'Do unto him as you would he should do unto you,'-- that is, think of his welfare.
Though I had him in my net, I let him go.

Shall I go to heaven for doing that ?" "I don't know," said Miss Cassewary, who was so much perturbed by the news she had heard as to be unable to come to any opinion on the point just raised.
"Or mayn't I rather go to the other place?
From how much embarrassment should I have relieved my father! What a friend I should have made for Percival! How much I might have been able to do for Frank! And then what a wife I should have made him!" "I think you would." "He'll never get another half so good; and he'll be sure to get one before long.