I am very happy here with the only relatives I have in the world, who are ever so much nicer people than I supposed they were, and you have no right to come here and drive me away." "My dear young lady," said Croft, "I wouldn't do such a thing for the world.

I admit that I am very sorry that it is necessary, or appears to you to be so, that you should be here under false colors, but--" "_Appears_ to be," said she, with much emphasis on the first word.

"Why, can't you see that it would be impossible for me, as a young unmarried woman, to come to the house of a man, whose proprietor, as Aunt Keswick considers herself to be, has been trying to marry to me, even before I was grown up; for the letters that used to make my father most angry were about this.

I hate to talk of these family affairs, and I only do it so that you can be made understand things." "Mrs Null," said Lawrence, "do not think I wish to blame you.

You have had a hard time of it, and I can see the peculiarities of your residence here.