He did not molest me, he was not rude--I do not wish to make it out worse than it was--but it is not pleasant, Mr.Roy, to be followed whenever you may take a walk.

Especially by one you dislike." "What is there to dislike in Luke ?" demanded the bailiff.
"Perhaps I ought to have said by one you do not like," she resumed.

"To like Luke, in the way he wished, was impossible for me, and I told him so from the first.

When I found that he dodged my steps, I spoke to him again, and threatened that I should acquaint Mr.Verner.I told him, once for all, that I could not like him, that I never would have him; and since then he has kept his distance.

That is all that has ever passed between me and Luke." "Well, your hard-heartedness has done for him, Rachel Frost.