Emily had not done so well with her own affairs, as to enable her to preach with advantage about marriage.
"He has gone ?" said Mrs.Trevelyan, as she opened the door.
"Yes, he has gone." "Well?
Do not pretend, Nora, that you will not tell me." "There is nothing worth the telling, Emily." "What do you mean?
I am sure he has proposed.

He told me in so many words that it was his intention." "Whatever has happened, dear, you may be quite sure that I shall never be Mrs.Glascock." "Then you have refused him,--because of Hugh Stanbury!" "I have refused him, Emily, because I did not love him.

Pray let that be enough." Then she walked out of the room with something of stateliness in her gait,--as might become a girl who had had it in her power to be the future Lady Peterborough; but as soon as she reached the sacredness of her own chamber, she gave way to an agony of tears.

It would, indeed, be much to be a Lady Peterborough.

And she had, in truth, refused it all because of Hugh Stanbury! Was Hugh Stanbury worth so great a sacrifice?
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