But to insure my scheme, I must keep it secret.

Do you believe me ?" "I do!" cried Lionel; and Sophy, whom by this time he had drawn upon his lap, put her arm gratefully round his neck.
"There is your money, sir, beforehand," said Vance, declining downward his betrayed and resentful nose, and depositing three sovereigns on the table.
"And how do you know," said Waife, smiling, "that I may not be off to-night with your money and your model!" "Well," said Vance, curtly, "I think it is on the cards.

Still, as John Kemble said when rebuked for too large an alms, "'It is not often that I do these things, But when I do, I do them handsomely.'" "Well applied, and well delivered, sir," said the Comedian, "only you should put a little more emphasis on the word do." "Did I not put enough?
I am sure I felt it strongly; no one can feel the do more!" Waife's pliant face relaxed into a genial brightness.

The _equivoque_ charmed him.

However, not affecting to comprehend it, he thrust back the money, and said,--"No, sir, not a shilling till the picture is completed.