She has seen her mother's fate; she has seen her sister an exile from my house.

Why?
For no fault of hers, poor thing, but because she is the child of disgrace, and the mother's sin is visited on her daughter's head.

I am a good-natured man, I fancy, as men go; but I am old-fashioned enough to care for my race.

If Lucretia demeaned herself to love, to encourage, that lad, why, I would strike her from my will, and put your name where I have placed hers." "Sir," said Vernon, gravely, and throwing aside all affectation of manner, "this becomes serious; and I have no right even to whisper a doubt by which it now seems I might benefit.

I think it imprudent, if you wish Miss Clavering to regard me impartially as a suitor to her hand, to throw her, at her age, in the way of a man far superior to myself, and to most men, in personal advantages,--a man more of her own years, well educated, well mannered, with no evidence of his inferior birth in his appearance or his breeding.