He cherished every idea with fondness, occasionally bringing them forth to view as opportunity favored.

While Lady Rosamond is sadly watching the days and months drag slowly along within the bosom of Sir Howard Douglas' happy household, such are the motives actuating each of those who endeavor to seek her welfare; such is the state of their respective feelings, such their fond hope--their brightest dreams--laboring under the fatal delusion of giving happiness to her future.
Ah, your ladyship! were a kind fairy, in the form of a godmother, to breathe a few words into the ear of your loving and tender uncle, Lord Bereford, his kind heart would go forth to meet thee and save thee from a world of misery--from the fiery ordeal through which thou must pass!.