If my proposal disgust you, it is yourself has brought it on both of us.

There is no other remedy--you must do what your own impatient folly hath rendered necessary--I command you." "I cannot put your commands, my lord," said Amy, "in balance with those of honour and conscience.

I will NOT, in this instance, obey you.
You may achieve your own dishonour, to which these crooked policies naturally tend, but I will do nought that can blemish mine.

How could you again, my lord, acknowledge me as a pure and chaste matron, worthy to share your fortunes, when, holding that high character, I had strolled the country the acknowledged wife of such a profligate fellow as your servant Varney ?" "My lord," said Varney interposing, "my lady is too much prejudiced against me, unhappily, to listen to what I can offer, yet it may please her better than what she proposes.

She has good interest with Master Edmund Tressilian, and could doubtless prevail on him to consent to be her companion to Lidcote Hall, and there she might remain in safety until time permitted the development of this mystery." Leicester was silent, but stood looking eagerly on Amy, with eyes which seemed suddenly to glow as much with suspicion as displeasure.
The Countess only said, "Would to God I were in my father's house! When I left it, I little thought I was leaving peace of mind and honour behind me." Varney proceeded with a tone of deliberation.