I can't tell you how much you have added to my happiness during the past two days." "He understands me!" she muttered, as she closed the door of her room.
"I am almost tempted to doubt whether a merciful God understands me.
Why was this immeasurable love put into my heart to be so cruelly thwarted?
Why must he go blindly on to so cruel a fate?
Of course she'll renounce everything for him.

Whatever else she may be, she is not an idiot." Henry Muir's quiet eyes had observed Madge closely, and from a little distance he had seen the parting between her and his brother.

Then he saw Graydon seek Miss Wildmere and resume a manner which he had learned to detest, and the self-contained man went out upon the grounds, and said, through clinched teeth: "To think that there should have been such a fool bearing the name of Muir! He's been gushing to Madge about that speculator, and we shall yet have to take her as we would an infection.".