I know it is a great deal to ask, but it means so much to me--to both of us, in fact--that I ask it." "You were kind enough to say a little while ago," said Junius, "that you considered me an honorable man.

I try to be such, and, therefore, will frankly state to you that I can think of but three motives, satisfactory to myself, for undertaking this business for you, and not one of them is a generous one.

In the first place, I might care to do it in order to have this matter settled, for you are such an extraordinary suitor, that I don't know in what form you may turn up, the next time.

Secondly, from what you tell me of Miss March's repugnance to meet you, I don't believe my mission will have an issue favorable to you, and the more unfavorable it is, the better I shall like it.

My third reason for acting for you is, that the whole affair is such an original one that it will rather interest me to be engaged in it.