I am grieved to have to say it, but for the present, you and Rachel are better apart.

The only advice I can offer you is, to give her time." I handed the letter back, sincerely sorry for Mr.Franklin, for I knew how fond he was of my young lady; and I saw that her mother's account of her had cut him to the heart.

"You know the proverb, sir," was all I said to him.

"When things are at the worst, they're sure to mend.

Things can't be much worse, Mr.Franklin, than they are now." Mr.Franklin folded up his aunt's letter, without appearing to be much comforted by the remark which I had ventured on addressing to him.
"When I came here from London with that horrible Diamond," he said, "I don't believe there was a happier household in England than this.