She will study his advancement as I study Poyntz's comfort.

If he be clever, she will help to make him a minister; if he be not clever, his wealth will make her a personage, and lift him into a personage's husband.

And, now that you see I have no matrimonial designs on you, Allen Fenwick, think if it will be worth while to confide in me.

Possibly I may be useful--" "I know not how to thank you; but, as yet, I have nothing to confide." While thus saying, I turned my eyes towards the open window beside which I sat.

It was a beautiful soft night, the May moon in all her splendour.
The town stretched, far and wide, below with all its numberless lights,--below, but somewhat distant; an intervening space was covered, here, by the broad quadrangle (in the midst of which stood, massive and lonely, the grand old church), and, there, by the gardens and scattered cottages or mansions that clothed the sides of the hill.
"Is not that house," I said, after a short pause, "yonder with the three gables, the one in which--in which poor Dr.Lloyd lived--Abbots' House ?" I spoke abruptly, as if to intimate my desire to change the subject of conversation.