I really had to send Mrs Morgan to her before I could return to your room.

A more impudent, hardened manner, I never saw." "Ruth was neither impudent nor hardened; she was ignorant enough, and might offend from knowing no better." He was getting weary of the discussion, and wished it had never been begun.

From the time he had become conscious of his mother's presence, he had felt the dilemma he was in in regard to Ruth, and various plans had directly crossed his brain; but it had been so troublesome to weigh and consider them all properly, that they had been put aside to be settled when he grew stronger.

But this difficulty in which he was placed by his connexion with Ruth, associated the idea of her in his mind with annoyance and angry regret at the whole affair.

He wished, in the languid way in which he wished and felt everything not immediately relating to his daily comfort, that he had never seen her.