I am so grateful to you for saying that you will come back at Christmas." He had resolved that he would refrain from further love-making till the winter; but he found it very hard to refrain when so addressed.
To take her in his arms, and kiss her twenty times, and swear that he would never let her go,--to claim her at once savagely as his own, that was the line of conduct to which temptation prompted him.

How could she look at him so sweetly, how could she stand before him, ministering to him with all her pretty maidenly charms brought so close to him, without intending that he should love her?
But he did refrain.

"Blood is thicker than water," said he.

"That's the real reason why I first came." "I understand that quite, and it is that feeling that makes you so good.

But I'm afraid you are spending a great deal of money here--and all for our sakes." "Not at all.