"And Delia will rue the day she turned from as true a man as Henry Wallingford." "Bless me, Constance! you've got deeper into this matter, than either his mother or me.

Who has been initiating you into the love secrets of S---- ?" "This affair," returned my wife, "has not passed into town talk, and will, I trust, be kept sacred by those who know the facts.

I learned them from Mrs.Dean, the sister of Mrs.Floyd.The case stands thus: Henry is peculiar, shy, reserved, and rather silent.

He goes but little into company, and has not the taking way with girls that renders some young men so popular.

But his qualities are all of the sterling kind--such as wear well, and grow brighter with usage.