'Tis she who holds the balance in her hands--not he.

While she's got the will to lead him astray he will follow--poor, unpractical, lofty-notioned dreamer--and how long she'll do it depends upon her whim.

Did ye ever hear anything about her character before she came to Hintock ?" "She's been a bit of a charmer in her time, I believe," replied Giles, with the same level quietude, as he regarded the red coals.

"One who has smiled where she has not loved and loved where she has not married.
Before Mr.Charmond made her his wife she was a play-actress." "Hey?
But how close you have kept all this, Giles! What besides ?" "Mr.Charmond was a rich man, engaged in the iron trade in the north, twenty or thirty years older than she.

He married her and retired, and came down here and bought this property, as they do nowadays." "Yes, yes--I know all about that; but the other I did not know.