He came trembling.
"Look me in the face, Mr.Vane," said she, gently, but firmly.
"I cannot!" said he.

"How can I ever look you in the face again ?" "Ah! you disarm me! But I must strike you, or this will never end.

Did I not promise that, when you had earned my _if_ esteem, I would tell you--what no mortal knows--Ernest, my whole story?
I delay the confession.

It will cost me so many blushes, so many tears! And yet I hope, if you knew all, you would pity and forgive me.

Meantime, did I ever tell you a falsehood ?" "Oh no!" "Why doubt me then, when I tell you that I hold all your sex cheap but you?
Why suspect me of Heaven knows what, at the dictation of a heartless, brainless fop--on the word of a known liar, like the world ?" Black lightning flashed from her glorious eyes as she administered this royal rebuke.