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"If I were you, I would scorn to wet my sword in blood so base"

"Reirl suffered For his treachery she nearly died I speak not of ht have been more careful"

"Annie, she was in the happy hurry of love Your cal that is--shevillain turned her mistake into a crime By a God's mercy, it is found out--but how? Annie! Annie, how much I owe you! What can I say? What can I do?"

"Be reasonable Mary Dauilty restless conscience forced hi on people he did not name But I knew so much of the ether, and find theo?"

"About two ive me hope ere this?"

"I would not give you hope, till hope was certain Two years is a long ti for Cornelia to have forgotten--to have changed"

"Iet She could not change Why did you not tell me? I should have known her heart by mine own"

"I wished to be sure," repeated Annie, a little sadly

"Forgive me, dear Annie But this news throws me into an unspeakable condition You see that I must leave for Ae"

"But if you consider--"

"I have been considering for two months Let me decide for you now, for you are not able to do so wisely Write at once to Cornelia, that is your duty as well as your pleasure But before you go to her, there are things indispensable to be done Will you ask Doctor Moran for his child, and not be able to show him that you can care for her as she deserves to be cared for? Lawyers will not be hurried, there will be consultations, and engrossings, and signings, and love--in your case-- will have to wait upon law"

"'Tis hard for love, and harder perhaps for anger to wait For I a to be near hi his envy and hatred have caused others!"

"And himself also Be sure of that, or he had not tried to find some ease in a kind of confession Doctor Roslyn will tell you that it is an eternal law, that wherever sin is, sorroill answer it"