My hope was, that you would go to Miss Loring in the grave dignity of manhood--But, while in this spirit of angry excitement, I pray you keep far from her." "Hendrickson is the man!" said Dexter, his brows still contracting heavily.

"But if he still hopes to rival me in Jessie's love, he will find himself vastly in error.

No, no, madam! If it is for him you are interested, you had better give it up.

I passed him in the race long ago!" A feeling of disgust arose in the mind of Mrs.Denison, mingled with a stronger feeling of contempt.

But she answered without a visible sign of either.
"I am sorry that you have let the form of any person come in to give right thought and honorable purpose a distorting bias.