I could make no impression on her at all." "Well, it cannot be helped.

Did you say anything about Conolly's selling his interest here and leaving the country ?" "No," said the clergyman, struck with a sense of remissness.

"I forgot that.

The fact is, I hardly had the oppor----" "Never mind.

It is just as well that you did not: it might have made mischief." "I do not think it is of the least use to pursue her with any further overtures.