I hope you are not come to ask me to give him up again, for I can't." Then she said, with quick defiance, "Take him from me, if you can." Then, piteously, "And if you do, you will kill me." "Dear heart, I came of no such errand.

I came to tell you I know how generous you have been to me, and made me your friend till death; and, when a Dence says that, she means it.

I have been a little imprudent: but not so very.

First word I said to him, in this very house, was, 'Are you really a workman ?' I had the sense to put that question; for, the first moment I clapped eyes on him, I saw my danger like.

Well, he might have answered me true; but you see he didn't.