Perhaps I have already had cause enough to make me repent my compliance with an idle custom.

At any rate, believe that Henry Smith is nothing to me, and that even the idle intercourse arising from St.Valentine's Day is utterly broken off." "I am rejoiced to hear it, my daughter," replied the Carthusian, "and must now prove you on another subject, which renders me most anxious on your behalf.

You cannot your self be ignorant of it, although I could wish it were not necessary to speak of a thing so dangerous, even, before these surrounding rocks, cliffs, and stones.

But it must be said.
Catharine, you have a lover in the highest rank of Scotland's sons of honour ?" "I know it, father," answered Catharine, composedly.

"I would it were not so." "So would I also," said the priest, "did I see in my daughter only the child of folly, which most young women are at her age, especially if possessed of the fatal gift of beauty.