I know Arthur's ardent temper, the intensity of his affections, the agony of his pleasures and disappointments, and I tremble at this one if it must be.

Indeed, indeed, it must not come on him too suddenly." "My dear madam," the Major said, with an air of the deepest commiseration "I've no doubt Arthur will have to suffer confoundedly before he gets over the little disappointment.

But is he, think you, the only person who has been so rendered miserable ?" "No, indeed," said Helen, holding down her eyes.

She was thinking of her own case, and was at that moment seventeen again--and most miserable.
"I, myself," whispered her brother-in-law, "have undergone a disappointment in early life.

A young woman with fifteen thousand pounds, niece to an Earl--most accomplished creature--a third of her money would have run up my promotion in no time, and I should have been a lieutenant--colonel at thirty: but it might not be.