I am upon the eve of a public career.

I have outgrown morbid emotions, and I come to ask you if you would take time to reflect whether I might not renew my addresses; for indeed I love, and can love, no other woman." Hope Wayne stood pale, incredulous, and confounded while Abel Newt, with some of the old fire in the eye and the old sweetness in the voice, poured out these rapid words, and advanced toward her.
"Stop, Sir," she said, as soon as she could command herself.

"Is this all you have to say ?" "Don't drive me to despair," he said, suddenly, in reply, and so fiercely that Hope Wayne started.

"Listen." He spoke with stern command.
"I am utterly ruined.

I have no friends.