"Of course we must rather bite our tongues out, than break the solemn pledges which we have given." She had cried a good deal, and she began to cry again.
"Don't cry, that's a darling," said the simple-hearted sister.

"You make the whole world seem so cruel when you cry, because you look so innocent.

It shall be as you please, if I can only think it right.

But I cannot see how we gave a pledge of any sort, considering that we ran away without speaking.

The question is--have we any right to conceal it, when father has a right to know everything ?" "He would be in such a sad passion," pleaded Dolly, with a stock of fresh tears only waiting, "and he never would look again at poor Captain Stubbard, and what would become of all his family ?" "Father is a just and conscientious man," replied the daughter who inherited those qualities; "he would not blame Captain Stubbard; he would blame us, and no others." "Oh, I could not bear to hear you blamed, Faith.