I need hardly say that if I have accidentally overheard more than I ought, it is as much a secret with me, as it would be with your own brother.

The characters of all cannot be affected by the mistaken and excited calculations of one; and this occasion has served to make me better acquainted with you, and your admirable daughter, than I might otherwise have been, by means of years of ordinary intercourse." "Oh! Admiral Bluewater, do not judge him _too_ harshly! He has been too long at that fatal table, which I fear has destroyed poor dear Sir Wycherly, and knew not what he said.

Never before have I seen him in such a fearful humour, or in the least disposed to trifle with, or to wound the feelings of this sweet child!" "Her extreme agitation is a proof of this, my good madam, and shows all you can wish to say.

View me as your sincere friend, and place every reliance on my discretion." The wounded mother listened with gratitude, and Mildred withdrew from her extraordinary situation, wondering by what species of infatuation she could have been led to adopt it..