The earl considered it a wholesome feature of Aminta's character that she should have held to her modest schoolmate the fact spoke well for both of them.
A look at the papers to serve for Memoirs was discomposing, and led him to think the secretary could be parted with as soon as he pleased to go: say, a week hence.
The Memoirs were no longer designed for issue.

He had the impulse to treat them on the spot as the Plan for the Defence of the Country had been treated; and for absolutely obverse reasons.

The secretary and the Memoirs were associated: one had sprung out of the other.

Moreover, the secretary had witnessed a scene at Steignton.

The young man had done his duty, and would be thanked for that, and dismissed, with a touch of his employer's hand.