He has never been consoled; her father has just received a letter from him to-day begging him to renew the subject with her; but when Sophia changes once she's not likely to alter again.

There's not one in a thousand to equal her." Trenholme agreed perfectly with the conclusion, even if he did not see that it was proved by the premises.

He went away with his mind much agitated and filled with new anxieties.

The fact that she had once consented to marry another seemed to him to make it more probable that she might do so again.

He had allowed himself to assume that since the time when he had seen her as a young girl, the admired of all, Sophia had drifted entirely out of that sort of relation to society; but now, by this sudden alarm, she seemed to be again elevated on some pinnacle of social success beyond his reach.