But the metal has never been tested--as the soundest metal always requires to be--and until this is done, you will never rest.

I had rather it were done during my lifetime than afterward.

Helen, I particularly wish the boy to go to college." The earl spoke so decidedly that Mrs.Bruce replied with only the brief question "Where ?" "To Edinburg; because there he would not be left quite alone.

His uncle Alick would keep an eye upon him, and he could be boarded with Mrs.
Menteith, whose income would be none the worse for the addition I would make to it; for of course, Helen, if he goes, it must be--not exactly as my declared heir, since you dislike that so much, but--as my cousin and nearest of kin, which he is undeniably." Helen acquiesced in silence.
"I have a right to him, you see," said Lord Cairnforth, smiling, "and really I am rather proud of my young fellow.

He may not be very clever -- the minister says he is not--but he is what I call a man.