"I owe him a great deal: had it not been for his kindness and counsel, I should not be alive to-day.

I am most deeply grateful to him." "If you vouch for him, Miss Rodd, that is enough.

You have had the advantage of a closer acquaintance than I can boast," Leonard answered gravely, mentally contrasting the difference of her manner in acknowledging the priest's services and his own.
From that hour till a certain conversation opened his eyes, struggle as he would against it, Leonard disliked Francisco.

He had a foolish British aversion to his class, and Juanna's marked partiality towards this particular individual did not lessen it in this instance.

Prejudice is a strong thing, and when it is heightened by suspicion and jealousy, especially jealousy of the unacknowledged kind, it becomes formidable, both to him who entertains it and to him against whom it is entertained.
When their meal was done they proceeded up the river in the boats which they had captured from the slavers, each boat being rowed by the best oarsmen among the Settlement men.