Then I could adore him.

I would nurse him, I would wait on him and save him all disagreeable rubs and shocks.

I am much stronger than he, and I would stand between him and the world.

Indeed, with Mr.Hudson for my brother, I should be willing to live and die an old maid!" "Have you ever told him all this ?" "I suppose so; I 've told him five hundred things! If it would please you, I will tell him again." "Oh, Heaven forbid!" cried poor Rowland, with a groan.
He was lingering there, weighing his sympathy against his irritation, and feeling it sink in the scale, when the curtain of a distant doorway was lifted and Mrs.Light passed across the room.

She stopped half-way, and gave the young persons a flushed and menacing look.