Only somehow, you know, after being great friends with anyone, one doesn't like to see someone else stepping into your place." "But as I have told you, over and over again, during the last three years, Jim, you have willfully stepped out of your place.

You know how often I have asked you to come up, and how seldom you have come.

You have never shown Aggie that you have any wish to continue on the footing of friendship, on which you stood towards each other when she was at your mother's, and as you have chosen to throw her over, I don't see why she shouldn't take to anyone else who takes pains to make himself pleasant to her." "Oh! I don't blame her a bit, Mr.Wilks.How could you think such a thing! I was very fond of little Aggie when she was at my mother's; but of course, I was not ass enough to suppose that she was going trotting about the country with me, when she once went up to the Hall as the squire's granddaughter.

Of course, the whole thing was changed.
"Ah! Here comes the rain." As he spoke, a sudden splash of rain struck them.

It might have been noticed coming across the water in a white line.