My interview, therefore, will take place with Miss Garth alone--and it is a very great relief to me to know it." He spoke the last words with more emphasis and energy than seemed habitual to him.

Mr.Clare stopped, and looked at his guest attentively.
"You are almost as old as I am, sir," he said.

"Has all your long experience as a lawyer not hardened you yet ?" "I never knew how little it had hardened me," replied Mr.Pendril, quietly, "until I returned from London yesterday to attend the funeral.
I was not warned that the daughters had resolved on following their parents to the grave.

I think their presence made the closing scene of this dreadful calamity doubly painful, and doubly touching.

You saw how the great concourse of people were moved by it--and _they_ were in ignorance of the truth; _they_ knew nothing of the cruel necessity which takes me to the house this morning.