Mr.Ness continued: "She is at present unwilling enough to leave this house, poor girl.

It is but natural; but she has no power in the matter, even were there any other course open to her.

I can only say how glad, how honoured, I shall feel by as long a visit as you and she can be prevailed upon to pay me at the Parsonage." "Where is Mr.Corbet ?" said Miss Monro.
"I do not know.

After breaking off his engagement he wrote me a long letter, explanatory, as he called it; exculpatory, as I termed it.

I wrote back, curtly enough, saying that I regretted the breaking-off of an intercourse which had always been very pleasant to me, but that he must be aware that, with my intimacy with the family at Ford Bank, it would be both awkward and unpleasant to all parties if he and I remained on our previous footing.