If 'Sol' was to come to know of what you asked of me, I would not answer for even so much as that, I promise you." "'Sol' might have known of it had you not chosen to keep it from him, for reasons best known to yourself," said Richard, quietly.

"You have taken some time to make up your mind between us." Trevethick winced; for the promise of the young man's interest with respect to Wheal Danes had, in fact, been the bait which had tempted him to temporize so long.

He had never meant to give his daughter to Richard; but he had hoped to reap an advantage, present or future, out of the implied intention; nor did he know even yet in what relation Richard stood with Parson Whymper.
"At all events, it's made up now," answered the landlord, curtly.
"This letter has caused you to decide against me, then ?" "That letter?
Well, of course it has.

Not that there ain't a heap of other reasons; but that one's enough, I should think, even for you." "It is just such a letter as I should have expected Carew to pen," observed Richard, coolly, "and does not alter the facts of the case as I stated them to you one whit.

That my father is furious with me is clear enough; that is, because he is in the wrong, and feels it.