She believed that in going to Canada he was doing an injudicious thing; but as his confidence was hard to shake, he could not be warned--her conversation with him had made that plainer.

She would not regret it if Sylvia forgot him while he was absent; but there were other ways in which he might suffer, and she wished he had not chosen to place the management of his affairs in Herbert's hands.
In the meanwhile, her brother had arrived, and he and George were sitting together on the opposite side of the lawn.

Edgar was a handsome, dark-haired lad, with a mischievous expression, and he sometimes owned that his capacity for seeing the humorous side of things was a gift that threatened to be his ruin.

Nevertheless, there was a vein of sound common sense in him, and he had a strong admiration for George Lansing.
"Why do you want to go with me ?" the latter asked, pretending to be a bit stern, but liking the youngster all the while.
"That," Edgar laughed, "is a rather euphemistic way of putting it.

My washes have not been consulted.