However, I don't think your daughter will complain, and I am sure the world will applaud what our poor friend has done--of his own accord, mind, Mr.Carley, wholly and solely of his own spontaneous desire.

It is a thing that I should only have been too proud to suggest; but the responsibility of such a suggestion is one which I could never have taken upon myself.

It would have been out of my province, indeed.

You will be kind enough to remember this by-and-by, my dear sir." The bailiff was puzzled, and showed Mr.Pivott to the door with a moody countenance.
"I thought there was some devil's work," he muttered to himself, as he watched the lawyer mount his stiff brown cob and ride away into the night; "but what does it all mean?
and what has Stephen Whitelaw done with his money?
We shall know that pretty soon, anyhow.

He can't last long.".