"Can you use such expressions?
and are you not sensible that they show plainly it is your own pride, not regard for me, that makes you resist the happiness of both ?" "Not so, Julian; not so," answered Alice, with tears in her eyes; "it is the command of duty to us both--of duty, which we cannot transgress, without risking our happiness here and hereafter.

Think what I, the cause of all, should feel, when your father frowns, your mother weeps, your noble friends stand aloof, and you, even you yourself, shall have made the painful discovery, that you have incurred the contempt and resentment of all to satisfy a boyish passion; and that the poor beauty, once sufficient to mislead you, is gradually declining under the influence of grief and vexation.

This I will not risk.

I see distinctly it is best we should here break off and part; and I thank God, who gives me light enough to perceive, and strength enough to withstand, your folly as well as my own.

Farewell, then, Julian; but first take the solemn advice which I called you hither to impart to you:--Shun my father--you cannot walk in his paths, and be true to gratitude and to honour.