Cedric is her special darling, the object of her tenderest care; if she only knew--" but here she paused, as though her emotions were too strong.
"My dear Miss Templeton"-- Malcolm was determined to be heard now, he should not be suppressed and silenced any more--"you are making far too much of the trifling service I was able to render to your brother.

What was a small loan ?" "What was it ?" here Elizabeth struck in again; "it was, humanly speaking, life and salvation to a poor weak boy who was on the brink of despair; who was so desperate, with trouble and misery, that he might have fallen deeper and deeper if a Good Samaritan had not passed that way.

He has told me since that the thought of Dinah's unhappiness almost drove him crazy, and that he could not have answered for himself.

Cedric is a dear lad, but he is not strong." "He has had his lesson.

We all enter our kingdom of manhood through some tribulation, Miss Templeton." "Ah, true, but we would gladly spare our belongings such a painful experience.