Beat them, defeat them; make them scream with envy.

But I am afraid you are too sanguine." "No; I can do it, if you will only give me another word of hope to keep me going; and oh, I need it, if you knew all." Grace began to look uneasy.

"Mr.Little, can you doubt that you have my best wishes ?" said she, guardedly, and much less warmly than she had spoken just before.
"No, I don't doubt that; but what I fear is, that, when I have gained the hard battle, and risen in the world, it will be too late.

Too late." Grace turned more and more uncomfortable.
"Oh, pray wait a few months, and see what I can do, before you--" Will it be believed that Mr.Carden, who seldom came into this room at all, must walk in just at this moment, and interrupt them.

He was too occupied with his own affairs, to pay much attention to their faces, or perhaps he might have asked himself why the young man was so pale, and his daughter so red.
"I heard you were here, Little, and I want to speak to you on a matter of some importance." Grace took this opportunity, and made her escape from the room promptly.
Henry, burning inwardly, had to listen politely to a matter he thought pitiably unimportant compared with that which had been broken off.