I should think he never opens a book.

Of course it would be a degradation." "And what does Mary say herself ?" "I fancy she has refused him." Then he added after a pause, "Indeed I know she has." "How should you know?
Has she told you ?" In answer to this he only nodded his head at the old lady.

"There must have been close friendship, Reg, between you two when she told you that.

I hope you have not made her give up one suitor by leading her to love another who does not mean to ask her." "I certainly have not done that," said Reg.

Men may often do much without knowing that they do anything, and such probably had been the case with Reginald Morton during the journey from Dillsborough to Cheltenham.
"What would her father wish ?" "They all want her to take the man." "How can she do better ?" "Would you have her marry a man who is not a gentleman, whose wife will never be visited by other ladies;--in marrying whom she would go altogether down into another and a lower world ?" This was a matter on which Lady Ushant and her nephew had conversed often, and he thought he knew her to be thoroughly wedded to the privileges which she believed to be attached to her birth.