I am sure she is.

And you, who have stood in that tender relation towards her, are bound to consult her happiness.

Now, can I--as I have said to Haredale, who quite agrees--can I possibly stand by, and suffer her to throw herself away (although she IS of a Catholic family), upon a young fellow who, as yet, has no heart at all?
It is no imputation upon him to say he has not, because young men who have plunged deeply into the frivolities and conventionalities of society, very seldom have.

Their hearts never grow, my dear ma'am, till after thirty.

I don't believe, no, I do NOT believe, that I had any heart myself when I was Ned's age.' 'Oh sir,' said Mrs Varden, 'I think you must have had.