How often has it been my earnest request to him that he would let me share his solitary abode, or his obscure wanderings! But the short and infrequent visits which he makes to this house are all that he permits me of his society.

Something I might surely do, however little, to alleviate the melancholy by which he is oppressed." "Something we might both do," said Peveril.

"How willingly would I aid you in so pleasing a task! All old griefs should be forgotten--all old friendships revived.

My father's prejudices are those of an Englishman--strong, indeed, but not insurmountable by reason.

Tell me, then, where Major Bridgenorth is, and leave the rest to me; or let me but know by what address your letters reach him, and I will forthwith essay to discover his dwelling." "Do not attempt it, I charge you," said Alice.