How many a warm and loving heart has been so frozen! Do not let yours be one of them.

Be mine! be mine!" Amabel looked at him earnestly for a moment; while he, assured that he had gained his point, could not conceal a slightly triumphant smile.
"Now, your answer!" he cried.

"My life hangs upon it." "I am still unmoved," she replied, coldly, and firmly.
"Ah!" exclaimed the earl with a terrible imprecation, and starting to his feet.

"You refuse me.

Be it so.