I therefore will not make the offer I came here to make." "An offer, sir ?" "Yes! I fancied that you loved Lucy and were broken-hearted by the news of her engagement to Hope.

I therefore intended to ask you to give me, or rather lend me, five hundred pounds on condition that I helped you to--" "Stop, Professor," said Random, coloring, "I should never have bought Miss Kendal as my wife on those terms." "Of course! of course! and--as I say--there is no more to be said.

I shall therefore agree to Lucy's engagement to Hope"-- Braddock carefully omitted to say that he had already agreed and had been paid one thousand pounds to agree--"and will congratulate you when you lead Donna Inez to the altar." "I never said anything about Donna Inez, Professor Braddock." "Of course not: modern reticence.

However, I can see through a brick wall as well as most people.

I understand, so let us drop the subject, my boy.