"After all, your father dismissed him.

I shall advise your father to write to him, and if he does not--I shall write to him myself." "I hope you will not do that," said Magdalen.

"Do you remember what a subject for gossip it was at the time?
When father became angry with Everard he told everyone, and it became a sort of loud turmoil.

The servants knew, the parish knew, the whole county knew that I had had a disappointment.

I have remained ever since in the eyes of the neighbours a sort of blighted creature, a victim of the heartlessness of man.