I know one." "You do ?" asked he, looking up.
"Mary Armsworth, the banker's daughter." "What! That purse-proud, vulgar man ?" "Don't be afraid of him.

A truer and more delicate heart don't beat.

No one has more cause to say so than I.He will receive you with open arms, and need be told no more than is necessary; while, as his friend, you may defy gossip, and do just what you like." Tom slipped out that afternoon, paid Elsley's pittance of rent at his old lodgings; bought him a few necessary articles, and lent him, without saying anything, a few more.

Elsley sat all day as one in a dream, moaning to himself at intervals, and following Tom vacantly with his eyes, as he moved about the room.

Excitement, misery, and opium were fast wearing out body and mind, and Tom put him to bed that evening, as he would have put a child.
Tom walked out into the Strand to smoke in the fresh air, and think, in spite of himself, of that fair saint from whom he was so perversely flying.