"We may sit on the same bridge," said he; "we have been in the same boat for a long time.

You are not the only man who has made a fool of himself about that woman.

And I have less excuse than you, because I am older and know her better.

She has no more heart than the stone you are leaning on; and it or you or I might fall into the water, and never come up again, and she wouldn't care.

Yes--she would care for me, because she wants me to teach her: and she won't be able to get on without me, and will be forced to send for me from London.