If he should not be altogether what he ought to be--and which of us is ?--then you will have the honor of reclaiming him.

But men settle down when they marry." "And what comes of their wives ?" "What comes of women.

You have your mother before you, Hesper." "O mother!" cried Hesper, now at length losing the horrible affectation of calm which she had been taught to regard as _de rigueur_, "is it possible that you, so beautiful, so dignified, would send me on to meet things you dare not tell me--knowing they would turn me sick or mad?
How dares a man like that even desire in his heart to touch an innocent girl ?" "Because he is tired of the other sort," said Lady Malice, half unconsciously, to herself.

What she said to her daughter was ten times worse: the one was merely a fact concerning Redmain; the other revealed a horrible truth concerning herself.

"He will settle three thousand a year on you, Hesper," she said with a sigh; "and you will find yourself mistress." "I don't doubt it," answered Hesper, in bitter scorn.