Have you any particular reason for doing so ?" "I have no reason in the world.

He is a good-natured, gentlemanly fellow; and I know no ill of him, except that he is always getting into scrapes, and dropping, as I hear, a lot of money.

But if he got out of his last guinea, and went almost in rags, it would be nothing to me; so _that's_ not it.

One does take antipathies; I dare say you do, Miss Ashton.

What a blessing Hartledon did not die in that fever he caught last year! Val would have inherited.