I don't know how to please you, master.' 'I shall deliver it,' returned his patron, putting it away after a moment's consideration, 'myself.

Does the young lady walk out, on fine mornings ?' 'Mostly--about noon is her usual time.' 'Alone ?' 'Yes, alone.' 'Where ?' 'In the grounds before the house .-- Them that the footpath crosses.' 'If the weather should be fine, I may throw myself in her way to-morrow, perhaps,' said Mr Chester, as coolly as if she were one of his ordinary acquaintance.

'Mr Hugh, if I should ride up to the Maypole door, you will do me the favour only to have seen me once.

You must suppress your gratitude, and endeavour to forget my forbearance in the matter of the bracelet.

It is natural it should break out, and it does you honour; but when other folks are by, you must, for your own sake and safety, be as like your usual self as though you owed me no obligation whatever, and had never stood within these walls.