I have a special reason and a special purpose in the placing of each; so that any moving of them would thwart my plans.
"Should you want money or counsel in anything, Mr.Marvin will carry out your wishes; to the which he has my full instructions." "ABEL TRELAWNY." I read the letter a second time before speaking, for I feared to betray myself.

The choice of a friend might be a momentous occasion for me.
I had already ground for hope, that she had asked me to help her in the first throe of her trouble; but love makes its own doubtings, and I feared.

My thoughts seemed to whirl with lightning rapidity, and in a few seconds a whole process of reasoning became formulated.

I must not volunteer to be the friend that the father advised his daughter to have to aid her in her vigil; and yet that one glance had a lesson which I must not ignore.

Also, did not she, when she wanted help, send to me--to me a stranger, except for one meeting at a dance and one brief afternoon of companionship on the river?
Would it not humiliate her to make her ask me twice?
Humiliate her! No! that pain I could at all events save her; it is not humiliation to refuse.