Friendship should not be left to dangle between love and hatred.

It sits squarely on the heart of an honest man, or is cast out candidly and above board.

Shall I sit down ?" "Yes," he answered, rising from the bed, drawing the rug up over his shoulders, and taking a chair not far from where I was sitting.

"I saw your cousin--" "When and where ?" I interrupted.
"Yesterday, in this house," he replied.
"Did she come to see you?
And did you permit her to come ?" I asked, finding it my turn to be angry.
"No, she did not come to see me, nor had I anything to do with her visit to the Old Swan.

She was eating dinner with Nell Gwynn, and--" "Was she the duchess, of whom Betty told me ?" I asked, interrupting him.
"Yes, the Duchess of Hearts, as I hear she has been dubbed at court," he answered, with an angry gleam in his eyes and a sharp note of contempt in his voice.
"And was it for her you fought ?" I asked, feeling as though I was reading a page from a story-book.