She had loved that blustrous good-tempered Tom Halliday so very dearly, and it was only to please poor Georgy that she brought herself to address any other man by the name that had been his.
"My City men have something better to do than to marry a young woman without a sixpence," answered Mr.Sheldon.

"Why don't you try to catch one of them for yourself ?" "I don't like City men," said Charlotte quickly; and then she blushed, and added apologetically, "at least not the generality of City men, papa." Diana had waited until her destiny was settled before answering Valentine Hawkehurst's letter; but she wrote to him directly she was established at the Lawn, and told him the change in her plans.
"I think papa had better let me come to see him at his lodgings," she said, "wherever they may be; for I should scarcely care about Mr.
Sheldon seeing him.

No one here knows anything definite about my history; and as it is just possible Mr.Sheldon may have encountered my father somehow or other, it would be as well for him to keep clear of this house.

I could not venture to say this to papa myself, but perhaps you could suggest it without offending him.

You see I have grown very worldly-wise, and am learning to protect my own interests in the spirit which you have so instilled into me.