Go out and get in something to eat, sharp, for it has struck four some time ago." At these words, Rose started, and a scarlet flush spread over her cheek.

"Four o'clock," repeated she, thinking of her letter; but after a moment's reflection she stepped up to the cracked mirror, and arranging her tattered skirts, took up the banknote and left the room.
"She is a rare beauty," remarked Daddy Tantaine with the air of one who was an authority in such matters, "and as clever as they make them.
Ah! if she had only some one to give her a hint, she might rise to any height." Paul's ideas were in such a wild state of confusion, that he could make no reply; and, now that he was no longer held in thrall by Rose's presence, he began to be terrified at what had taken place, for he imagined that he caught a sinister expression in the old man's face which made him very suspicious of the wisdom of the course he had been persuaded to pursue.

Was there ever such an unheard-of event as an old man of such a poverty-stricken appearance showering banknotes upon the heads of perfect strangers?
There was certainly something mysterious in the affair, and Paul made up his mind that he would do his utmost to avoid being compromised.
"I have thought the matter over," said he resolutely; "and it is impossible for me to accept the loan of a sum which it would be difficult for me to repay." "My dear young friend, that is not the way to talk.

If you do not have a good opinion of yourself, all the world will judge you according to your own estimation.

Your inexperience has, up to this time, been the sole cause of your failure.