My motives are pure, indeed they are; you believe they are, do you not ?" "Certainly I do," I answered, passing my hand over my eyes, to clear away the dark specks that still floated over them; "but if you have any regard for my feelings, speak at once, plainly and openly.

I will be grateful for any advice prompted by kindness, and expressed without mystery." "I only thought," said he, becoming again visibly embarrassed, "that I would suggest the propriety of your not permitting young Clyde to accompany you home so often.

The extraordinary interest he took in you as a boy, renders his present attentions more liable to remark.

A young girl in your situation, my child, cannot be too particular, too much on her guard.

College boys are wild fellows.