I am glad, however, you mentioned it.

There is some hope left still; but alas, alas! what is even love when opposed to selfishness and ambition?
I could--I myself could----" he seemed deeply moved, and paused for some time, as if unwilling to trust himself with speech--"Yes, I am glad you mentioned it, and I thank you, Sir Thomas, I thank you.

I should wish to see these two young people happy.

I believe he is attached to your daughter, and I will now mention a fact which certainly proves it.

The gentleman with whom he fought that unfortunate duel was forced into it by Dunroe, in consequence of his having paid some marked attentions to Miss Gourlay, when she and her mother were in Paris, some few months before Lady Gourlay's decease.