I suppose the next thing you will find out is, that there is something underhand even in that ?" "You won't accept the invitation ?" "I shall, at the very first opportunity; and if you had seen Miss Alicia, so would you." "Don't go.

Take my advice and don't go," said the Treasurer, gravely.
"You are a young man.

Reputable friends are of importance to you at the outset of life.

I say nothing against Doctor Dulcifer--he came here as a stranger, and he goes away again as a stranger--but you can't be sure that his purpose in asking you so readily to his house is a harmless one.

Making a new acquaintance is always a doubtful speculation; but when a man is not visited by his respectable neighbors--" "Because he doesn't open his shutters," I interposed sarcastically.
"Because there are doubts about him and his house which he will not clear up," retorted the Treasurer.