Poor old Widow Osborne needs a watcher to-night; and she insists upon having Julia Barnet, and nobody else.

What shall I tell her ?" "I'll go, certainly.

I can leave Lucy now as well as not." "Good-by, neighbors." "Good-by, Doctor." As we drove off I saw the Doctor draw his hand hastily across his eyes, and he said nothing for some minutes.
"Public opinion," said he at length, as if pursuing his meditations aloud,--"public opinion is, in nine cases out of ten, public folly and impertinence.

We are slaves to one another.

We dare not take counsel of our consciences and affections, but must needs suffer popular prejudice and custom to decide for us, and at their bidding are sacrificed love and friendship and all the best hopes of our lives.