He had done mischief which might be irreparable.

Guilty and miserable, he naturally began to defend himself.
"If you had only told me!" he said feebly.
"I had nothing to tell, sir.

I went away, as you remember, almost at a moment's notice, to please you and my grandfather.

I could not speak to Lucia then, because--for various reasons; but I know that Mrs.Costello was my friend.

Afterwards she wrote to me when poor Morton was killed, and told me some story I could not very well make out, but which of course made no difference to me.