Do sit down there--out of the draught.

I am going to open the window, the night is so lovely." He opened the casement overgrown with creepers, and the moonlight lay fair and breathless upon the smooth lawn.

The calm and holiness of the night soothed and elevated his thoughts; he had cut himself off from the eyes of Alice, and he proceeded with a firm, though gentle voice: "My dear Alice, we cannot always live together in this way; you are now wise enough to understand me, so listen patiently.

A young woman never wants a fortune so long as she has a good character; she is always poor and despised without one.

Now a good character in this world is lost as much by imprudence as guilt; and if you were to live with me much longer, it would be imprudent, and your character would suffer so much that you would not be able to make your own way in the world; far, then, from doing you a service, I should have done you a deadly injury, which I could not atone for: besides, Heaven knows what may happen worse than imprudence; for, I am very sorry to say," added Maltravers, with great gravity, "that you are much too pretty and engaging to--to--in short, it won't do.