If you think your friend has wronged you, go to him, and tax him with that wrong.

I wash my hands of the affair altogether, from this moment; but, without wishing to be offensive, I cannot help telling you, that to my mind you are acting very foolishly in this business." "I daresay it may seem so to you.

You would think better of me if I could play the stoic, and say, 'She has jilted me, and is dead to me henceforward.' But I cannot do that.

I have the memory of her peaceful girlhood--the happy days in which I knew her first--the generous protector who sheltered her life.

I am pledged to the dead, Sir David." He left Heatherly soon after this, though the Baronet pressed him to stay to dinner..