I made mother let me! Oh, she's so soft, is mother, she'd let anybody off.

But I said, 'Diana's rich, and she _ought_ to make it up to us! If nobody else'll ask her, I will!'" The girl had grown pale, but it was a pallor of determination and of passion.

Mrs.Colwood had listened to the torrent of words, held against her will, first by astonishment, then by something else.

If it should be her duty to listen ?--for the sake of this young life, which in these few weeks had so won upon her heart?
She retraced a few steps.
"Miss Merton, I do not understand what you have been saying.

If you have any claim upon Miss Mallory, you know well that she is the soul of honor and generosity.