Below two hundred pounds for which you were going to sell my ring." "Were going! I shall do it still." "If you will; though it seems a pity to part with a gift of mine, when the sum is a mere nothing to me, with my large income, which, Helen, will one day be all yours." Helen was silent--a little sorry and ashamed.

The earl talked with her till he had succeeded in calming her and bringing her into her natural self again--able to see things in their right proportions, and take just views of all.
"Then you will trust me ?" she said at last.

"You think I may be depended upon to do nothing rashly when I go to Edinburg to-morrow ?" "My dear, I have no intention of letting you go." "But some one must go.

Something must be done, and I can not trust Alick to do it.

My brother does not understand my boy," said she, returning to her restless, helpless manner.