After the education I have tried to provide for you, I had a right to hope you would at least regulate your tongue by a little common-sense.

Do you not know that I have given up my profession, everything, in order to come to do my duty here ?" "I wish you hadn't," said the girl doggedly; "it would have been so easy to decline the trust and remain independent.

It's awful to think we've nothing to live on but what we get out of Roger's money." "Foolish girl," said her father with a forced laugh, "you are a delightful specimen of a woman's incapacity to understand the very rudiments of business.

Why, you absurd child, old Roger Ingleton's will bequeathed me L300 a year for acting as the boy's guardian." "Yes, for two years.

And Roger would have been all that richer if you'd declined.