I intended none." "I need not speak of my own grief.

You cannot but know how deep it must be.

Why should I have submitted myself to this mortification had not my heart been concerned?
But that I will bear, if I must bear it--" And then he paused, looking up at her.
"It will soon pass away," she said.
"I will accept it at any rate without complaint.

But as to my uncle's feelings, it is open to me to speak, and to you, I should think, to listen without indifference.

He has been kind to us both, and loves us two above any other living beings.