He seemed cordially delighted to patronize the son; he invited me to visit him at Laughton, and hinted to my father that I was formed for something better than a counting-house: my poor father was intoxicated.

In a word, here I am; here, often for days, almost weeks, together, have I been a guest, always welcomed." "You pause.

This is the primordium,--now comes the confession, eh ?" "Why, one half the confession is over.

It was my most unmerited fortune to attract the notice of Miss Clavering.

Do not fancy me so self-conceited as to imagine that I should ever have presumed so high, but for--" "But for encouragement,--I understand! Well, she is a magnificent creature, in her way, and I do not wonder that she drove the poor little girl at Southampton out of your thoughts." "Ah! but there is the sore,--I am not sure that she has done so.
Ardworth, I may trust you ?" "With everything but half-a-guinea.