Look here, my girl! I can give you just about the money that will carry you safely to London; and when you are once there, Providence must do the rest." "Valentine, what do you mean ?" "I mean, that you cannot get away from this place--you cannot dissever yourself from the people you have been living with, too soon.

Come, come, don't shiver, child.

Take a few drops of this cognac, and let me see the colour come back to your face before I say any more." He poured the dregs of a bottle of brandy into a glass, and made her drink the spirit.

He was obliged to force the rim of the glass between her set teeth before he could succeed in this.
"Come, Diana," he said, after she had drunk, "you have been a pupil in the school of adversity so long, that you ought to be able to take misfortunes pretty quietly.

There's a balance struck, somehow or other, depend upon it, my girl; and the prosperous people who pay their debts have to suffer, as well as the Macaire family.