I would not promise to be rock against so great a temptation!" and Ardworth turned his empty pockets inside out.
"Tush! be serious, or I go." "Serious! With pockets like these, the devil's in it if I am not serious.

Perge, precor." "Ardworth, then," said Mainwaring, with great emotion, "I confide to you the secret trouble of my heart.

This girl at Southampton is Lucretia's sister,--her half-sister; the rich relation on whose allowance she lives is Sir Miles St.John." "Whew! my own poor dear little cousin, by the father's side! Mainwaring, I trust you have not deceived me; you have not amused yourself with breaking Susan's heart?
For a heart, and an honest, simple, English girl's heart she has." "Heaven forbid! I tell you I have never even declared my love; and if love it were, I trust it is over.

But when Sir Miles was first kind to me, first invited me, I own I had the hope to win his esteem; and since he had always made so strong and cruel a distinction between Lucretia and Susan, I thought it not impossible that he might consent at last to my union with the niece he had refused to receive and acknowledge.

But even while the hope was in me, I was drawn on, I was entangled, I was spell-bound, I know not how or why; but, to close my confidence, while still doubtful whether my own heart is free from the remembrance of the one sister, I am pledged to the other." Ardworth looked down gravely and remained silent.