"You advise me to marry one, when I love another; and this, you think, is the way to be happy.

It has seldom proved so, and I should despise happiness if I could only get it in that way.
"Yours, sadly but devotedly, "H.

LITTLE.
"Will you wait two years ?" Grace, being on her defense, read this letter very slowly, and as if she had to decipher it.

That gave her time to say, "Yours, et cetera," instead of "sadly and devotedly." (Why be needlessly precise ?) As for the postscript, she didn't trouble them with that at all.
She then hurried the letter into her pocket, that it might not be asked for, and said, with all the nonchalance she could manage to assume, "Oh, if he loves somebody else!" "No; that is worse still," said Mr.Raby.

"In his own rank of life, it is ten to one if he finds anything as modest, as good, and as loyal as Dence's daughter.