Neither can I have her brought into trouble on my account.

What will she think of me, if she learns I have indulged such a notion?
She will say, and with truth, that I am the most ungrateful of human beings, as well as the most unnatural of children.

No, dear young lady, it must not be.

These fancies are brilliant, but fallacious, and, like bubbles, burst as soon as formed." "I admire your sentiments, though I do not admit the justice of your reasoning," rejoined Dorothy.

"It is not on your own account merely, though that is much, that the secret of your birth--if there be one--ought to be cleared up; but, for the sake of those with whom you may be connected.