Then, indeed, I might do such a thing.

Now I must go home or they will be missing me." "Stay a minute, Mary," said he; "you just listen to me.

They will, some of them, be trying to take my character away.

You won't throw me off without hearing my defence, dear Mary, I know you won't.

Let me hear what lies they tell of me, and don't you condemn me unheard because I come from a bad house?
Tell me that you'll give me a chance of clearing myself with you, my girl, and I'll go home in peace and wait." What girl could resist the man she loved so truly, when he pleaded so well?
With his arm about her waist, and his handsome face bent over her, lit up with what she took to be love.