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"So I did, auntie, long since, but I supposed it was, as you say, a ard that did not trouble him much I should be sorry to think that it was otherwise"

"At all events, it has not troubled you much, whatever it may have cost him You hardly do Haldane justice Your allusion to his former passion should remind you that he still possesses the same ardent and impetuous nature, out it is under control You cannot return his deep, yet unobtrusive, love, and, as the world is constituted, it is probably well for you that this is true; but I cannot bear that it should have no better reward than your last rather conteine that he felt as you seem to think Indeed, in ht of him at all His love has, in truth, been unobtrusive So scrupulously has he kept it froht and hoped that it had but little place in his ht, I am very, very sorry Why is the waste of these precious heart-treasures per tears attested her sincerity

"That is an old, old question, which the world has never answered The scientists tell us that by a law of nature no force is ever lost If this be true in the physical world, it certainly should be in the spiritual I also believe that an honest, unselfish love can enrich the heart that gives it, even though it receives no other reward But you have no occasion to blas which never could have been helped Besides, Haldane is serving a Master who is pledged to shape see of him at all, only your remark seemed so like injustice that I could not be silent In the future,for hinize the struggle he has ; and he is sothat even looks like social alnition which he deserves, for I should be sorry to see him become a lonely and isolated man Of course, you will have to do this very carefully, but your own graceful tact will best guide you in this ht he is , and not to think of hi ht, and ill be fairly content with life if he can secure his bread and butter"