She felt the fervor of admiration in the young man's attitude towards her, but she was painfully conscious of her undeservingness.

She had always felt guilty about her silence and disobedience towards her parents, and as for any self-approbation for it, that had been the farthest from her thoughts.

She murmured something deprecatingly, but Lloyd cut her short.
"It's no use crying off," said he; "you are one girl in a thousand, and I thank you, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

It might have made awful trouble.

My aunt Lizzie told me what a commotion there was over it." "I ran away," said Ellen, anxiously.