How could they be the worse for having known you?
I wonder that Mr.Spurling can talk such nonsense!" "How is Robert's picture getting on ?" "Oh, he has a lazy fit on him.

He has not touched it for ever so long.
But why do you ask that?
You have that furrow on your brow again.

Put it away, sir!" She smoothed it away with her little white hand.
"Well, at any rate, I don't think that quite everybody is the worse," said he, looking down at her.

"There is one, at least, who is beyond taint, one who is good, and pure, and true, and who would love me as well if I were a poor clerk struggling for a livelihood.

You would, would you not, Laura ?" "You foolish boy! of course I would." "And yet how strange it is that it should be so.