"I spoke hastily, in a sort of blind desperation.

We should not weigh too carefully the words that are extorted by pain or fear.

In less than an hour I will send you a hundred dollars more." Mrs.Dinneford laid the bank-bills on a table, and then moved to the door, but she dared not leave in this uncertainty.

Looking back, she said, with an appealing humility of voice and manner foreign to her character, "Let us be friends still, Mrs.Bray; we shall gain nothing by being enemies.

I can serve you, and you can serve me.