"I can't say but what it will make a difference," she answered, smiling; "but I shall always think that you have done right.

Why should I stand in Captain Aylmer's way ?" "I had hoped your ways might have been the same," said the old lady, fretfully.
"But they cannot be the same." "No; you do not see things as he sees them.

Things that are serious to him are, I fear, only light to you.

Dear Clara, would I could see you more in earnest as to the only matter that is worth our earnestness." Miss Amedroz said nothing as to the Captain's earnestness, though, perhaps, her ideas as to his ideas about religion were more correct than those held by Mrs.Winterfield.

But it would not have suited her to raise any argument on that subject.
"I pray for you, Clara," continued the old lady; "and will do so as long as the power of prayer is left to me.