"I advise you not to go back yet to your aunt--and I will tell you why.

Mrs.Gallilee bears malice; she is a thoroughly unforgiving woman.

And I should be the first to feel it, if she knew what I have just said to you." "Oh, Miss Minerva! you don't think that I would betray your confidence ?" "No, my dear, I don't.

I felt attracted towards you, when we first met.
You didn't return the feeling--you (very naturally) disliked me.

I am ugly and ill-tempered: and, if there is anything good in me, it doesn't show itself on the surface.