Don't, please, try to alter our plans." "I hesitate," he answered, "only because you have already suffered so much, and I fear the excitement for you." "All the excitement possible on that subject is over.

You will see that I shall take what has to come yet quietly enough.

And I am certain that you will not tell me that a wife is excusable if she neglects a dying husband." "Assuredly not.

You will be glad to have Mr.Leigh with you ?" "For some things, yes.

Yesterday I thought that there was no one whose presence could have been such a comfort to me; for, except himself, our greatest friends here are, as you know, the nearest connections of Dr.
Morton; so that till this confession, which has done so much for us, I could not have asked for sympathy or help from them." "No; but now they would give it readily enough if they knew.