You must tell him, kindly, that you cannot return his affection: you cannot always run away from him." "He will forget me soon.

He will, at any rate, forget his love, when he finds that I avoid his company; but, Henri, if he formally asks my hand, and is refused, that he will neither forget nor forgive." "He must take his chance, dearest, like other men." "But he isn't like other men, Henri.

You know he is--he is rather impatient of refusal; he could not bear as well as some men any mortification to his pride." "I trust he has too much real pride to feel himself disgraced, because he is not loved.

I grieve for him, for I love him myself; and I know his affections are strong; but I think it is better he should know the truth at once, and it must be from your own lips.

I cannot tell him you will not accept him before he himself makes the offer." Agatha did not reply; she could not explain even to her brother all that she felt.