It cannot be as you would have it." "Perhaps I have been abrupt.

Indeed, I feel that it is so, though I did not know how to avoid it." "It would have made no difference.

Indeed, indeed, Mr.Saul, nothing of that kind could have made a difference." "Will you grant me this--that I may speak to you again on the same subject after six months ?" "It cannot do any good." "It will do this good--that for so much time you will have had the idea before you." Fanny thought that she would have Mr.Saul himself before her, and that that would be enough.

Mr.Saul, with his rusty clothes and his thick, dirty shoes, and his weak, blinking eyes, and his mind always set upon the one wish of his life, could not be made to present himself to her in the guise of a lover.

He was one of those men of whom women become very fond with the fondness of friendship, but from whom young women seem to be as far removed in the way of love as though they belonged to some other species.