It is natural for a candid nature to recoil from duplicity.

But all our actions need charitable construction; and, remembering that, we should take heed to prevent our forebearance toward others from wavering.

Who knows that the alliance with your pure and lovely daughter may not be the means specially ordained to rescue him from his present condition." "I think it very possible," drawled the Countess, looking at him, nevertheless, with a certain contempt for what she privately considered his priggish, underbred cant.

"Besides, such things are recognized, though of course they are not spoken of.

No lady could with common decency pretend to know that such connexions are possible, much less assign one of them as a reason for breaking off an engagement." "Pardon me," said the Rev.George; "but can these worldly considerations add anything to the approval of our consciences?
I think not.