I am too devotedly attached to that dear girl whom we have just left to feel any regret that I have engaged myself to her.

But I do think that had I managed better with your uncle things might have been different." "I doubt it.

Indeed I know that it is not so; and can assure you that you need not make yourself unhappy on that score.

I had thought, as you well know, that he would have done something for Lily;--something, though not as much as he always intended to do for Bell.

But you may be sure of this; that he had made up his mind as to what he would do.