It seems to me you'd better take a little money out and buy her one, Andrew." "Well, I'll see," said Andrew.

He had a terrible sense of guilt before Fanny.

Suppose she knew that there was no money at all in the bank to take out?
"Well, I'll buy her one if you say so," said he, in a curious, slow, stern voice.

In his heart was a fierce rising of rebellion, that he, hard-working and frugal and self-denying all his life, should be denied the privilege of buying a present for his darling without resorting to deception, and even almost robbery.

He did not at that minute blame himself in the least for his misadventure with his mining stock.