"You have still the smooth tongue and the laugh in your eyes that should warn folks against it.

I listened to it once, and it brought me black shame and sorrow." "I almost fancy, Ailly, that if I wanted you to very much you would listen again." The girl shrank from him a little and then straightened herself suddenly and faced him with a flash in her eyes.
"No," she said.

"Once I would have put my hand in the fire for you; but when you left me in that dance house I knew all there was to know of you,--and I hoped you might never come in my way again.

Shamed as I am, I could not fall so low as you did then." "I don't know that I'm very proud of the part I played," and though Courthorne smiled there was a faint flush in his face.

"Still, you see, I hadn't a dollar then, and what could I do?
Any way, that's done with, and I was wondering if you would let me congratulate you.