That there was some mystery in her fate was evident to him; and while that conviction deepened his interest, the mystery itself by degrees took a charm which he was not anxious to dispel.

He resigned himself to Mrs.Fairfield's obstinate silence.

He was contented to rank the dead amongst those holy and ineffable images which we do not seek to unveil.

Youth and Fancy have many secret hoards of idea which they do not desire to impart, even to those most in their confidence.

I doubt the depth of feeling in any man who has not certain recesses in his soul into which none may enter.
Hitherto, as I have said, the talents of Leonard Fairfield had been more turned to things positive than to the ideal,--to science and investigation of fact than to poetry, and that airier truth in which poetry has its element.