But anxiety it is,--an anxiety that is remote from your profession, that touches your heart and is new to it!" I was startled, almost awed; but I tried to cover my confusion with a forced laugh.
"Profound observer! Subtle analyst! You have convinced me that I must be in love, though I did not suspect it before.

But when I strive to conjecture the object, I am as much perplexed as yourself; and with you, I ask, who can it be ?" "Whoever it be," said Mrs.Poyntz, who had paused, while I spoke, from her knitting, and now resumed it very slowly and very carefully, as if her mind and her knitting worked in unison together,--"whoever it be, love in you would be serious; and, with or without love, marriage is a serious thing to us all.

It is not every pretty girl that would suit Allen Fenwick." "Alas! is there any pretty girl whom Allen Fenwick would suit ?" "Tut! You should be above the fretful vanity that lays traps for a compliment.

Yes; the time has come in your life and your career when you would do well to marry.

I give my consent to that," she added with a smile as if in jest, and a slight nod as if in earnest.